Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
ABBIE HOFFMANDemocracy 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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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I’ll never understand why everyone else doesn’t feel this way.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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