Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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I think this is a pile of shit, while John Sinclair rots in prison.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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I feel like a famous Indian Chief of the Fagowee nations, who led his tribe for 40 years in the desert amidst starvation, hunger, famine, strife, plague - finally staggered up to the top of this mountain, drug crazed, looked out and pounded his chest and said, 'Where the fuck are we? Where the fuck are we?'
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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You ask, 'What about the innocent bystanders?' But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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For six years, the only consistent thing about our national drug policy has been its inconsistency. Harsher penalties, urine testing, hysteria, budget cuts and the simplistic 'Just Say No!' campaign (the equivalent of telling manic depressives to 'just cheer up') have returned drug education and treatment to the Reefer Madness era.