It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.
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And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.
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There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
Phil Ochs
Leave the old and dying America and use your creative energies to help form a new America, which would be de-militarized, more humanistic, where the police are less hostile and closer to the community, where the wealthy are not given unleashed power for the exploitation of the people.
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Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.
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When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.
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