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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.
Abbie Hoffman
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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 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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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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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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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 best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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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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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
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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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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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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
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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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