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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.

Abbie Hoffman

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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Authority Decision Face Fighting Thinking Versus
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Inspirational Life Revolution Support Truth Way
Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Action Morality Reality Well
It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Gotten Late Powerful Win Winning
Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
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Believe Democracy Freedom Hang Motivational Participate
Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Political Produce Random Rock
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Decorum Dignity Men Out Repression Speaks
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
I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Cute Probably Rebellious Revolutionary
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Day First Inspirational Life Motivational Today
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
Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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Actor Available Less Life Need Rehearse Script
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Advice Cow Hamburger Sacred Tastiest
It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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Combination Festival Park People Rolled Scope Trial
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Contemporary Expedience Justice Law Rule
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Dope Drug Funny Needle Political Shooting

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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