Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
Abbie Hoffman
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
Abbie Hoffman
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
In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.
Vinoba Bhave
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Individuals who break laws accepting imprisonment to arouse the conscience of the community, is expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
Joan Baez
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
lf the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Mohandas Gandhi
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
Cesar Chavez
All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better.
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
Abbie Hoffman
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
Abbie Hoffman
A revolution is a force against which no power divine or human, can prevail ..whose nature it is to grow by the very resistance it encounters.the more you repress it, the more you increase its rebound -Proudhon
“Every generation needs a new revolution.”
Thomas Jefferson
“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution”
Abraham Lincoln
“A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.”
“Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better.”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Abbie Hoffman
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Abbie Hoffman
"This country belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
Abraham Lincoln
"Get up, stand up! Stand up for your right! Don't give up the fight!"
Bob Marley
The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against freedom of people..You are either part of the solution or the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.
.. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
Frederick Douglass
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
"Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
Abbie Hoffman
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
Abbie Hoffman
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
In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.
Vinoba Bhave
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Individuals who break laws accepting imprisonment to arouse the conscience of the community, is expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
Joan Baez
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
lf the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Mohandas Gandhi
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
Cesar Chavez
All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better.
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
Abbie Hoffman
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
Abbie Hoffman
A revolution is a force against which no power divine or human, can prevail ..whose nature it is to grow by the very resistance it encounters.the more you repress it, the more you increase its rebound -Proudhon
“Every generation needs a new revolution.”
Thomas Jefferson
“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution”
Abraham Lincoln
“A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.”
“Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better.”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Abbie Hoffman
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Abbie Hoffman
"This country belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
Abraham Lincoln
"Get up, stand up! Stand up for your right! Don't give up the fight!"
Bob Marley
The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against freedom of people..You are either part of the solution or the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.
.. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
Frederick Douglass
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
"Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force."
Martin Luther King, Jr.