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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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Abbie Hoffman
Age: 52 †
Born: 1936
Born: November 30
Died: 1989
Died: April 12
Human Rights Activist
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Worcester
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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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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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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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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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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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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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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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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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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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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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