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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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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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Political Activist
Political Writer
Politician
Psychologist
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Worcester
Massachusetts
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Action is the only reality not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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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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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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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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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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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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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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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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