The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
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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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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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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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