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“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Inspirational #Motivational #Change
“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.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Country #Believe #Home
“You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Freedom #Giving #Democracy
“Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Needs #Use #Actors
“The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Way #Revolution #Educate
“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.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Freedom #Believe #Democracy
“There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Success #Winning #Giving
“The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Anger #Keys #People
“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.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Lips #Wipe #Lambs
“The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Sex #Dope #Rocks
“My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Kids #Disrespect #Democracy
“Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Rocks #Political #Cocktails
“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.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Life #War #Robots
“The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Inspirational Life #Support #Way
“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.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Change #Hippie #Liberty
“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.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Brother #Sister In Law #Pigs
“I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Peace #Military #War
“Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Freedom #Mean #Technology
“Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Advice #Hamburgers #Cows
“The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Hippie #Political #Liberty
“Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Reality #Morality #Action
“Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Funny #Dope #Drug
“Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Important #Details
“Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Numbers #Disease #Causes
“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.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#College #Race #Two
“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Law #Justice #Contemporary
“I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Cute #Revolutionary #Rebellious
“Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#People #Wish #Language
“A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Hippie #Political #Groups
“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!”
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Real #Kids #Dope

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