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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way.
Abbie Hoffman
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Abbie Hoffman
Age: 52 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 30
Died: 1989
Died: April 12
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Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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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 only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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 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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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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Fantasy is the only truth.
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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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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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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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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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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.
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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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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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