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Fantasy is the only truth.
Abbie Hoffman
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Abbie Hoffman
Age: 52 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 30
Died: 1989
Died: April 12
Human Rights Activist
Peace Activist
Political Activist
Political Writer
Politician
Psychologist
Social Activist
Writer
Worcester
Massachusetts
Abbie Hoffmann
Abbott Hoffman
Abbie hoffman
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America Hoffman
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Barry Freed
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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. 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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
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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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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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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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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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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If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
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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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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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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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