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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.

Abbie Hoffman

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

Appear Hair Long Support Tried
My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Authority Democracy Disrespect Kid
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Advice Cow Hamburger Sacred Tastiest
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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Around Dirty Four Kid Saw Work
..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do ’em. And don’t bullshit. I mean that’s the thing about doin’ that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Guerrilla Head Ideas Bullshit Mean Stoned
Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Crowded Fire Freedom Mean Right Speech Technology
Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Political Produce Random Rock
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Breakfast Duty Eat Hippie Liberty Political Second
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Changing Concentrate Group Hippie Modern Political
Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Cause Condition Dangerous Death Disease Numbers
I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Cute Probably Rebellious Revolutionary
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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Believe Democracy Freedom Hang Motivational Participate
Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Action Morality Reality Well
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Challenging Giving Greater Success Winning
The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Breakfast Revolution Second
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Impose Language People Reach Wish

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