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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

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Abbie Hoffman
Age: 52 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 30
Died: 1989
Died: April 12
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Worcester
Massachusetts
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It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.
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Action is the only reality not only reality, but morality as well.
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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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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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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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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 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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I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as cute.
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