Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
ABBIE HOFFMANDemocracy 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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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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 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 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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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