"Free Speech is the right to yell 'Theater!' in a crowded fire."
		-Abbie Hoffman
 
"So how do people 'do democracy'? They do it by acting out the roles they
always dreamed of playing." 
		-Abbie Hoffman

"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." 
		-Abbie Hoffman

 "Avoid all needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon." 
		-Abbie Hoffman

 Make war on machines, and in particular the sterile machines of corporate
death and the robots that guard them. The duty of a revolutionary is to
make love and that means staying alive and free. That doesn't allow for
cop-outs. Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment
than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution of
consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of
power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the
grass that will cover its grave.
		-Abbie Hoffman

 You know that being on the side of the angels, being right, isn't enough.
To succeed you also have to work very hard with lots of cooperation from
those around you. You have to have your wits about you continuously, show
up on time, and follow through.
		-Abbie Hoffman

 Murder in a uniform is heroic, in a costume it is a crime. False
advertisements win awards, forgers end up in jail. Inflated prices
guarantee large profits while shoplifters are punished. Politicians
conspire to create police riots and the victims are convicted in the
courts. Students are gunned down and then indicted by suburban grand
juries as the trouble-makers. A modern, highly mechanized army travels
9,000 miles to commit genocide against a small nation of great vision
and then accuses its people of aggression. Slumlords allow rats to
maim children and then complain of violence in the streets. Everything
is topsy-turvy.  ... Abbie Hoffman


 We debate which "ism" is more important than which other "ism," and I agree
that all the isms lead to schisms which lead to wasms. We need a new
language as we enter the next century.
		-Abbie Hoffman

 The correct stance, especially now in these times, is one foot in the
street - the foot of courage, that gets off the curbstone of indifference -
and one foot in the system - the intelligent foot, the one that learns how
to develop strategies, to build coalitions, to negotiate differences, to
raise money, to do mailing lists, to make use of the electronic media. You
need that foot, too. The brave foot goes out into the street to strike out
against the enculturation process that says: "Stay indoors," "Don't go out
in the street," "There's crime in the street," "It's bad in the street,"
"You lose your job in the street," "You'll be homeless," "It's terrible,"
'.'Yecch." Civil disobedience - (I spent my summer vacation chained to a
fence) - can be a necessary act of courage, but it doesn't take a hell of a
lot of brains.
		-Abbie Hoffman

 I have never seen a national issue won that wasn't based on grassroots
organizing and support. On the other hand, I have never ever seen a local
issue won that didn't rely on outside support and outside agitators.
		-Abbie Hoffman

 Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make
social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be
enough people that say, "We want it now, in our lifetime. " We want to see
apartheid in South Africa come down right now. We want to see the war in
Central America stop right now. We want the CIA off our campus right now.
We want an end to sexual harassment in our communities right now…. Be
adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and
seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our
country. It's your turn now.
		-Abbie Hoffman

 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.
		-Abbie Hoffman

"Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up
the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't
for that peace at all."
		-Abbie Hoffman

"Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high
crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a
compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!"
		-Abbie Hoffman

"Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses
only what is available, nothing more, nothing less."
		-Abbie Hoffman

"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."
		-Abbie Hoffman

"Once you get the right image the details aren't that important."
		-Abbie Hoffman

"We are here to make a better world. No amount of rationalization
or blaming can preempt the moment of choice each of us brings to
our situation here on this planet. The lesson of the '60s is that
people who cared enough to do right could change history. We
didn't end racism but we ended legal segregation. We ended the
idea that you could send half-a-million soldiers around the world
to fight a war that people do not support. We ended the idea that
women are second-class citizens. We made the environment an issue
that couldn't be avoided. The big battles that we won cannot be
reversed. We were young, self-righteous, reckless, hypocritical,
brave, silly, headstrong and scared half to death.

 And we were right."
		-Abbie Hoffman


"It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and
you wind up on the Best Seller's List."
		-Abbie Hoffman

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


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