When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you’re selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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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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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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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 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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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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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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