It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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