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Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
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 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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Action is the only reality not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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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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