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Abbie Hoffman

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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Breakfast Revolution Second
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Dope Drug Funny Needle Political Shooting
The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.
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Around Dirty Four Kid Saw Work
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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Alternative Anger Importantly Key Organize People Society
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
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.
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Educate Idea Inform List Media Ridiculous
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Abuse Clinical Legal Medical Political Understand
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
Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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Detail Image Important Right
I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Combine Fun Learned Thing Two World
I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
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Done Everyone Much Want Way
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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Changing Concentrate Group Hippie Modern Political
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Contemporary Expedience Justice Law Rule
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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Change Hippie Ideology Liberty Process Revolution Something
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Believe Compulsory Military Peace War
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Decorum Dignity Men Out Repression Speaks

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