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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.
Abbie Hoffman
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Abbie Hoffman
Age: 52 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 30
Died: 1989
Died: April 12
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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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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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I learned one thing you never do anything for fame or money. You only do things 'cause they're fun or good. If you can combine the two at the same time, you can make a contribution to the world and have a lot of happiness.
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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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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as cute.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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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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When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but because I have long hair.
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