“Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.”
Abbie Hoffman“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“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“Action is the only reality not only reality but morality as well.”
Abbie Hoffman“Action is the only reality not only reality but morality as well.”
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“Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.”
Abbie Hoffman“There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!”
Abbie Hoffman“A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the factory.”
Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year That Rocked the World