Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
ABBIE HOFFMANA revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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