Quote by Abbie Hoffman
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. – Abbie Hoffman

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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

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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. – Abbie Hoffman

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legal
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Freedom
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The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. – Maximilien Robespierre

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I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words. – Anna Quindlen

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Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church. – Tony Campolo

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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. – John F. Kennedy

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down. – Woody Allen

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