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Abbie Hoffman, the American activist, was a leading figure in the countercultural movement of the 1960s. Known for his theatrical protests and outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War, Hoffman was a charismatic and controversial figure. His activism, rooted in principles of civil disobedience and social justice, continues to inspire generations of activists around the world.
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"Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon."

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

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"Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger."

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

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"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."

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"Never impose your language on people you wish to reach."

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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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"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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"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."

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

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

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

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

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

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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."

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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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"I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute."

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

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

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

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