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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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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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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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I learned one thing you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things 'cause they're fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Action is the only reality not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
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