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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
Psychologist
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Worcester
Massachusetts
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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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Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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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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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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 was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as cute.
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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.
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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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