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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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Abbie Hoffman
Age: 52 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 30
Died: 1989
Died: April 12
Human Rights Activist
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Worcester
Massachusetts
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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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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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The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.
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The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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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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