Abbie Hoffman Quotes

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Abbie Hoffman

Profession : Activist

Birth : November 30, 1936

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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

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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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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

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I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake, to help people with a team of doctors.

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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

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The majority of people were always sitting in the stands. When I find people who are willing to go against the grain, who are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to change an unjust situation - that's what blows my mind out.

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