The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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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 best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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 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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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