It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
ABBIE HOFFMANWhen decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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 was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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