Abbie Hoffman Quotes About Activism

Quotes about: Activism

• You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Single, Country, Believe

• There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

  Abbie Hoffman

  Success, Winning, Giving

  "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.

• 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

  Change, Hippie, Liberty

  "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.

• 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

  Life, War, Robots

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

• 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

  Brother, Sister In Law, Pigs

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

• ..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Mean, Ideas, Bullshit

• Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!

  Abbie Hoffman

  Fun, Honor, Thrill

• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

• Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Life, Needs, Use

  "Revolution for the hell of it".

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