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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.
Abbie Hoffman
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Abbie Hoffman
Age: 52 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 30
Died: 1989
Died: April 12
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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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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as cute.
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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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Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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Action is the only reality not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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