Quote by Abbie Hoffman
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, no

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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Society
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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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Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other. – Ernestine Rose

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Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces. – Ron Paul

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Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. – Garrett Hardin

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. – Charles Horton Cooley

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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do. – Bear Grylls

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True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. – William Butler Yeats

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