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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!

— Abbie Hoffman

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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)

All you kiddies remember to lay off the needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

You ask, "What about the innocent bystanders?" But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent.

Revolution for the Hell of It (1968)

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

Revolution for the Hell of It (1968)

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