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 HoffmanI believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
Abbie HoffmanA modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
Abbie HoffmanThere is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
Abbie HoffmanYou measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Abbie HoffmanIt is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.
Abbie Hoffman