Abbie Hoffman Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”
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“You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.”
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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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“Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.”
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“The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.”
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“Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.”
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“There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!”
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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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“Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.”
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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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“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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“Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?”
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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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“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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“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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“I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.”
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“Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.”
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“The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.”
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“Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.”
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“Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.”
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“Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.”
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“Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.”
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“Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.”
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“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”
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“I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.”
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“Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.”
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“A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.”
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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!”
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