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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

Abbie Hoffman

Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Collection Commitment Dope Drinking More Picture Postage Smoking Stamp
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 HOFFMAN

Appear Hair Long Support Tried
Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Actor Available Less Life Need Rehearse Script
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Abuse Clinical Legal Medical Political Understand
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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Consciousness Cover Distribution Empty Grass Grave Greening Power Revolution
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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Absolutely Challenging Learned Successful Thinking Winning
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 HOFFMAN

Dope Kid Minor Real Sale State Year
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Changing Concentrate Group Hippie Modern Political
The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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College Destroy Reason Should
I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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Authority Decision Face Fighting Thinking Versus
The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Best Educate Oneself Revolution Way
The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.
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Around Dirty Four Kid Saw Work
Fantasy is the only truth.
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Dig Fantasy Manslaughter Mirror Sale State
Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Crazy Humor Maintain People Sense Winning
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Contemporary Expedience Justice Law Rule
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Alternative Anger Importantly Key Organize People Society

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