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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as cute.
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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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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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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 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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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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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 '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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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