The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
ABBIE HOFFMANIt’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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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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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 ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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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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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.
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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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..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.
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