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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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Massachusetts
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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.
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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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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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Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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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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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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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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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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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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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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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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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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