The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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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 best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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