Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMANThe best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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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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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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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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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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Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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