The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
ABBIE HOFFMANNever impose your language on people you wish to reach.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Wouldn’t you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It’s a great thrill. It’s an honor. It’s a compliment. It’s fun. I’m enjoying every minute of it!
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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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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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A 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.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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