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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
Abbie Hoffman
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Abbie Hoffman
Age: 52 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 30
Died: 1989
Died: April 12
Human Rights Activist
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Worcester
Massachusetts
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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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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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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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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.
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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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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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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.
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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.
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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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Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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