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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.

Abbie Hoffman

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Believe Democracy Freedom Hang Motivational Participate
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Believe Compulsory Military Peace War
Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Collection Commitment Dope Drinking More Picture Postage Smoking Stamp
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Corporate Internationalist Life Machine Respect Robot War
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
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.
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Crazy Humor Maintain People Sense Winning
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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Consciousness Cover Distribution Empty Grass Grave Greening Power Revolution
Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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Crowded Fire Freedom Mean Right Speech Technology
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
I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
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Feeling Fighting General Power Thinking Win Winning
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.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Authority Decision Face Fighting Thinking Versus
It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Combination Festival Park People Rolled Scope Trial
What if when they called a war, no one went?
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Call Question War
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
I learned one thing; you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things ’cause they’re fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
ABBIE HOFFMAN

Combine Fun Learned Thing Two World
Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Political Produce Random Rock

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