Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
ABBIE HOFFMANThe key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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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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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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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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