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„Some day we too will fly off in some communal capsule, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Hippies, liberated women, young workers on the line, and G. I.’s sitting in stockades because they don’t want to go to Vietnam. There will be a whole mess of us laughing and getting stoned on our way to OUTERSPACE, and the first thing we’re gonna do out there is to rip down that fuckin flag on the moon.“
„THE KEY TO ORGANIZING AN ALTERNATIVE SOCIETY IS TO ORGANIZE PEOPLE AROUND WHAT THEY CAN DO AND MORE IMPORTANTLY WHAT THEY WANT TO DO.“
„For a revolution, in order to be a true revolution, must be a world revolution. To achieve that world revolution, you the children of the Yankees must lend a hand. You must vomit forth your cynicism in the streets of your cities. You must mount an unrelenting attack on everything the bastards that rule your country hold dear. You must refuse to serve in their armies, you must reject the heroin offered in their universities, you must become clogs in their productive machines.“
„Every group was broke cause the liberal bulge that used to support most radical causes was off on some other trip, playing around with anti-ABM campaigns and sending food to Biafra. Even though they wept and shed some blood in the streets of Chicago, they were gone for good – gone with their money. Our revolution was becoming too radical or crazy or violent or young. We were fuckin up their cocktail parties and it mattered not the blood we were shedding or the growing fascism in the country. New ways had to be found to get bread cause the days of the mailings and benefits were over. In fact, for the Yippies, they had never even begun.“
„I see Judaism as a way of life. Sticking up for the underdog. Being an outsider. A critic of society. The kid on the corner who says the emperor has no clothes on. The Prophet.“
„It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.“
„It’s perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail.“
„In Woodstock Nation there are no writers—only poet-warriors.“
„The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.“
„If this guy is God, then this is the God that the United States of America deserves.“
„You ask, “What about the innocent bystanders?” But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent.“
„Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.“
„A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.“
„I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.“
„Amerika is just another Latin dictatorship. Those who have doubts should try the minimal experience of organizing a large rock festival in their state, sleeping on some beach in the summer or wearing a flag shirt. Ask the blacks what it’s been like living under racism and you’ll get a taste of the future we face. As the repression increases so will the underground – deadly groups of stoned revolutionaries sneaking around at night and balling all day.“
„The Beatles may be more popular than Jesus but heavy cats like Chairman Mao, Uncle Ho, and beautiful long-haired Che Guevara are more popular than The Beatles.“
„Your universities teach you to be eternal cynics, a cynicism that can be only drowned in alcohol and diet pills and psychoanalysts and golf. Forget your cynicism. There is not one who has more respect for life than a revolutionist.“
„LONG LIVE THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION!“
„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!“
„To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.“
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