Abbie Hoffman: Revolution

Abbie Hoffman was American political and social activist. Explore interesting quotes on revolution.
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“The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.”

Abbie Hoffman

Source: Revolution for the Hell of It (1968), p. 188.

“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

Source: Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980), p. 297.
Context: 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. When all today's isms have become yesterday's ancient philosophy, there will still be reactionaries and there will still be revolutionaries. No amount of rationalization can avoid the moment of choice each of us brings to our situation here on the planet. I still believe in the fundamental injustice of the profit system and do not accept the proposition there will be rich and poor for all eternity.

“It's ridiculous to talk about a revolution without a few words on guns. If you haven't been in the army or done some hunting, you probably have a built in fear against guns that can only be overcome by familiarizing yourself with them.”

Abbie Hoffman book Steal This Book

Steal This Book (1971)

“LONG LIVE THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION!”

Abbie Hoffman book Woodstock Nation

Down on Me and Janis Joplin
Woodstock Nation (1969)

“The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.”

Abbie Hoffman

Source: Revolution for the Hell of It (1968), p. 184.

“You ask, "What about the innocent bystanders?" But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent.”

Abbie Hoffman

Source: Revolution for the Hell of It (1968), p. 183.

“Every group was broke cause the liberal bulge that used to support most radical causes was off on some other trip, playing around with anti-ABM campaigns and sending food to Biafra. Even though they wept and shed some blood in the streets of Chicago, they were gone for good - gone with their money. Our revolution was becoming too radical or crazy or violent or young. We were fuckin up their cocktail parties and it mattered not the blood we were shedding or the growing fascism in the country. New ways had to be found to get bread cause the days of the mailings and benefits were over. In fact, for the Yippies, they had never even begun.”

Abbie Hoffman book Woodstock Nation

The Great Rip Off
Woodstock Nation (1969)

“For a revolution, in order to be a true revolution, must be a world revolution. To achieve that world revolution, you the children of the Yankees must lend a hand. You must vomit forth your cynicism in the streets of your cities. You must mount an unrelenting attack on everything the bastards that rule your country hold dear. You must refuse to serve in their armies, you must reject the heroin offered in their universities, you must become clogs in their productive machines.”

Abbie Hoffman book Woodstock Nation

Che's Last Letter
Woodstock Nation (1969)