American - Activist | November 30, 1936 - April 12, 1989
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Abbie Hoffman
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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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 - that's what blows my mind out.
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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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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.
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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.
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