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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More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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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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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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