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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.
Abbie Hoffman
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Abbie Hoffman
Age: 52 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 30
Died: 1989
Died: April 12
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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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It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.
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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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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!
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Action is the only reality not only reality, but morality as well.
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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as cute.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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