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Political Activist Inspirational Quotes (3181)

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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way.
Abbie Hoffman
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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.
Abbie Hoffman
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
Abbie Hoffman
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Abbie Hoffman
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If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
Abbie Hoffman
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
Abbie Hoffman
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Fantasy is the only truth.
Abbie Hoffman
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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.
Abbie Hoffman
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Abbie Hoffman
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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.
Abbie Hoffman
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Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. 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.
Abbie Hoffman
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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
Abbie Hoffman
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
Abbie Hoffman
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Action is the only reality not only reality, but morality as well.
Abbie Hoffman
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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.
Abbie Hoffman
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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.
Abbie Hoffman
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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!
Abbie Hoffman
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Abbie Hoffman
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as cute.
Abbie Hoffman
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
Abbie Hoffman
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
Abbie Hoffman
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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
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
Abbie Hoffman
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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.
Abbie Hoffman
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