The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
ABBIE HOFFMANIn 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!
More Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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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 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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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that’s about tenth or eleventh on their list.
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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!
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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