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Abbie Hoffman

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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.


— Abbie Hoffman


#language #never #people #reach #wish

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


— Abbie Hoffman


#get #image #important #once #right

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


— Abbie Hoffman


#important #information #more #structure #than

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


— Abbie Hoffman


#duty #first #get #revolutionary

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


#alternative #around #importantly #key #more

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


— Abbie Hoffman


#dope #needle #nixon #only #richard

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


— Abbie Hoffman


#contemporary #expedience #justice #law #rule

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


— Abbie Hoffman


#dope #free #gone #great #never

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


— Abbie Hoffman


#arbitrary #clinical #distinctions #illegal #legal

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


— Abbie Hoffman


#conformists #democracy #dissidents #freedom #gives






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Michael Lembeck portrayed Hoffman in the 1987 HBO television film Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8. the right of the band to perform uninterrupted by distractions not relevant to the actual show. "
In Woodstock Nation Hoffman mentions the incident and says he was on a bad LSD trip at the time.

While the defendants were initially convicted of intent to incite a riot the verdicts were overturned on appeal. Hoffman came to prominence in the 1960s and continued practicing his activism in the 1970s and has remained a symbol of the youth rebellion of that era.

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