Quote by 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

Other quotes by Abbie Hoffman

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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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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Freedom
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Other Quotes from
legal
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In my role as Wikileaks editor, Ive been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions. – Julian Assange

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legal

One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York. – Mike Judge

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legal

They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases. – John Perry Barlow

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legal

We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework. – Li Peng

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legal

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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Democracy

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. – Francis H. Bradley

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Nudity

It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge. – Soledad OBrien

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