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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.
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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as cute.
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Action is the only reality not only reality, but morality as well.
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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.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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..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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The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.
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