It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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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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When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF – which I do – but because I have long hair.
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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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 ’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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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