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Abbie Hoffman

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
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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Absolutely Challenging Learned Successful Thinking Winning
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
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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Dope Kid Minor Real Sale State Year
What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Call Question War
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Impose Language People Reach Wish
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
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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Corporate Internationalist Life Machine Respect Robot War
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Day First Inspirational Life Motivational Today
It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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Best Embarrassing Government List Political Seller Wind
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Decorum Dignity Men Out Repression Speaks
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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Authority Democracy Disrespect Kid
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
Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there’s peace. Well, I ain’t for that peace at all.
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Complicated Concept Gobbles Lamb Lips Peace Wipe
Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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Crazy Humor Maintain People Sense Winning
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

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