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.
ABBIE HOFFMANThere 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.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.
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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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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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