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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!
Abbie Hoffman
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Abbie Hoffman
Age: 52 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 30
Died: 1989
Died: April 12
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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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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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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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Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
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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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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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 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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as cute.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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