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 HOFFMANFantasy is the only truth.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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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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