It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List. - Abbie Hoffman

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It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

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About Abbie Hoffman

Abbott Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (30 November 1936 – 12 April 1989) was a social and political activist in the United States, co-founder of the Youth International Party ("Yippies"), and later, a fugitive from the law, who lived under an alias following a conviction for dealing cocaine.

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Birth Name: Abbot Howard Hoffman
Alternative Names: Abbie Hoffmann Abbott Hoffman Abbie hoffman Abbott Howard Hoffman America Hoffman Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman Barry Freed
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Amerika is just another Latin dictatorship. Those who have doubts should try the minimal experience of organizing a large rock festival in their state, sleeping on some beach in the summer or wearing a flag shirt. Ask the blacks what it's been like living under racism and you'll get a taste of the future we face. As the repression increases so will the underground - deadly groups of stoned revolutionaries sneaking around at night and balling all day.

For six years, the only consistent thing about our national drug policy has been its inconsistency. Harsher penalties, urine testing, hysteria, budget cuts and the simplistic "Just Say No!' campaign (the equivalent of telling manic depressives to "just cheer up") have returned drug education and treatment to the Reefer Madness era.

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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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