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 HOFFMANAvoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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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 essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there’s peace. Well, I ain’t for that peace at all.
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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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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.
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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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Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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