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 key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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 was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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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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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 essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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