You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
ABBIE HOFFMANSmoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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.
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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.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as “cute.”
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Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.
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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do ’em. And don’t bullshit. I mean that’s the thing about doin’ that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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