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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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Political Activist
Political Writer
Politician
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Worcester
Massachusetts
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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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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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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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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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..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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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