Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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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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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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Democracy 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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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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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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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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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there’s peace. Well, I ain’t for that peace at all.
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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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