Abbie Hoffman Quotes

• There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

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• I always held my flower in a clenched fist.

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• Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.

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  Tags in Right, Fire, Freedom

• The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

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  Tags in Revolution, Support, Inspiration

• Once you get the right image the details aren’t that important.

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  Tags in Right, Important

• A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

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  Tags in Revolutionary, Television, Modern

• Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

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  Tags in Worth, Shooting

• 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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  Tags in Alternative, People

• Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

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  Tags in Law, American

• Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

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  Topics in Respect

  Tags in War, Corporate

• I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

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  Tags in Believe, War, People

• I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

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  Tags in Cute, Referred, Probably

• 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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  Tags in Human, Spirit, Revolution

• Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

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  Tags in People, Impose, Wish

• Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

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  Tags in Sacred, Hamburgers

• Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

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  Tags in Important, Structure, Content

• 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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  Tags in Great, Cheap

• The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

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  Tags in Duty, Revolutionary

• Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

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  Tags in Political, Illegal, Distinctions

• When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

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  Tags in Speak, Men

Abbie Hoffman (23)

Birth:	30th November, 1936
Death:	12th April, 1989
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Psychologist, Speaker, Writer

About

Abbie Hoffman was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party. Hoffman was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, along with Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner and Bobby Seale.

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