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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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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

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Death
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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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Abbie Hoffman
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Freedom
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And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history. – David Icke

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Freedom

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

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Freedom

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. – Epictetus

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Freedom

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. – Edward R. Murrow

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Freedom

Random Quotes

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. – Rose Macaulay

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Insults

I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. Its funny, when you look back at it, its one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on Homeland, there are no clear boundaries and enemies. – Matthew Rhys

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funny

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. – Thomas Wolfe

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Cooking, Culinary

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. – Jean de La Fontaine

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Fear