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!
ABBIE HOFFMANWhen 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.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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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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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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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.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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