Abbie Hoffman Quotes

Abbott Howard Hoffmanfue a social activist, writer and politician in the united States, co-founder of the International Party of the Youth. Known as Abbie Hoffman, later, became a fugitive from the law, who lived under an alias convicted for dealing in cocaine.
Hoffman was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting violence for their actions during the protests and violent clashes with police during the Democratic national convention of 1968. In these actions he participated along with a group called the Seven of Chicago.

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

I will say this: In order for the planet to survive there are going to be acts of ecoterrorism.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

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The majority of people were always sitting in the stands. When I find people who are willing to go against the grain who are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to change an unjust situation – thats what blows my mind out.

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

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

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

Once you get the right image the details arent that important.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do and more importantly what they want to do.

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

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.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Expedience not justice is the rule of contemporary American law.

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

The 60s are gone dope will never be as cheap sex never as free and the rock and roll never as great.

There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.

I was a fugitive taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake to help people with a team of doctors.

Im a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live with the idea that we have to get out of town before dawn.