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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

Abbie Hoffman

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Abbie Hoffman
Age: 52 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 30
Died: 1989
Died: April 12
Human Rights Activist
Peace Activist
Political Activist
Political Writer
Politician
Psychologist
Social Activist
Writer
Worcester
Massachusetts
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..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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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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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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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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It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.
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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?
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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