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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
Abbie Hoffman
Society
People
Key
Want
I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
Abbie Hoffman
Cute
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.
Abbie Hoffman
Sister
Brother
Evil
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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Death
War
Life
Corporate
Machines
Respect
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
Abbie Hoffman
American
Justice
Law
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
Abbie Hoffman
People
Cannibalism
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
Abbie Hoffman
People
Language
Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
Abbie Hoffman
Right
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
Revolution
Ideology
Spirit
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
Abbie Hoffman
Cows
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Abbie Hoffman
Democracy
Freedom
Measure
The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
Abbie Hoffman
Sex
Will
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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Duty
First
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Revolution
Support
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Abbie Hoffman
Legal
Medical
Abuse