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!
ABBIE HOFFMANThe first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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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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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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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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If you don’t have sex and you don’t do drugs, your rock ‘n’ roll better be awfully good.
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