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What if when they called a war, no one went?

Abbie Hoffman

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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Dope Kid Minor Real Sale State Year
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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Feeling Fighting General Power Thinking Win Winning
Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Crowded Fire Freedom Mean Right Speech Technology
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Absolutely Challenging Learned Successful Thinking Winning
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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College Education Race Truth Two Usually
Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Political Produce Random Rock
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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Educate Idea Inform List Media Ridiculous
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Decorum Dignity Men Out Repression Speaks
Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Action Morality Reality Well
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Alternative Anger Importantly Key Organize People Society
I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Cute Probably Rebellious Revolutionary
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Impose Language People Reach Wish
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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Appear Hair Long Support Tried
The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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Accepting Challenge Community Essence Individual Nation Revolution Successful
The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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College Destroy Reason Should
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Abuse Clinical Legal Medical Political Understand

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