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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.
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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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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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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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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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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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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Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
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Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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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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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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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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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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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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