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.
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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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..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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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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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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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