“I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.”

— Abbie Hoffman

Cited as being in Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980) p. 222, this does not appear accessible for verification in online scans of this book. So someone needs to go to the library.
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“I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.”

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