I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
ABBIE HOFFMANYou measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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Wouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do ’em. And don’t bullshit. I mean that’s the thing about doin’ that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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