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Abbie Hoffman

Winning elections, that's the first thing on your wish list? Equality, justice, education, poverty and progress, they're second?

Tom Hayden

If you don't win elections, it doesn't matter what's second. And it is astonishing to me that someone still has to explain that to you.

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