Abby Hoffman.....Many of us miss you.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

Thank you for teaching me the heart of an activist, your inspiration, and the memories.

Many of us miss you.

Abbie Hoffman
(November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989)


Yippie leader
at whose New York home the Youth International Party (Yippies) was formed on December 31, 1967

He was among the group that came to be known as the Chicago Seven (originally known as the Chicago Eight), which included fellow Yippie Jerry Rubin, Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale, David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner and future California state senator Tom Hayden. Bobby Seale's trial was severed from the others, who then became the Chicago Seven.

Testimonies were also given by a variety of witnesses, such as psychonaut Dr Timothy Leary, singer-songwriters Phil Ochs, Arlo Guthrie and Judy Collins, comedian Dick Gregory, Chicago mayor Richard Daley, author Norman Mailer, and cleric and activist Jesse Jackson. The trial was a circus, because that is what the Yippie (Youth International Party) leaders had decided to make it ...

Abbie Hoffman is something akin to an American prophet.
President Jimmy Carter



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


There was the Youth International Party (yippies), minions of the absurd whose leaders failed last fall to levitate the Pentagon but whose antics at least leavened the grim seriousness of the New Leftists with much-needed humor.
TIME,
September 6, 1968

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
Abbie Hoffman

I want to be tried not because I support the National Liberation Front -which I do -but because I have long hair. Not because I support the Black Liberation Movement, but because I smoke dope. Not because I am against a capitalist system, but because I think property eats shit. Not because I believe in student power, but that the schools should be destroyed. Not because I'm against corporate liberalism, but because I think people should do whatever the fuck they want, and not because I am trying to organize the working class, but because I think kids should kill parents. Finally, I want to be tried for having a good time and not being serious.
Abbie Hoffman

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Abbie Hoffman

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
Abbie Hoffman

Fantasy is the only truth.
Abbie Hoffman

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
Abbie Hoffman

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Abbie Hoffman

There is no such thing as an innocent bystander.
Abbie Hoffman

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free people have is to speak out.
Abbie Hoffman

Morality seems to enter the picture only when individuals interact with each other. It's universally wrong to steal from your neighbor, but once you get beyond the one-to-one level and pit the individual against the multinational conglomerate, the federal bureaucracy, the modern plantation of agro-business, or the utility company, it becomes strictly a value judgment to decide who exactly is stealing from whom. One person's crime is another person's profit. Capitalism is license to steal; the government simply regulates who steals and how much.
Abbie Hoffman

Avoid all needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
Abbie Hoffman

All the isms lead to schisms which lead to wasms.
Abbie Hoffman;
‘Reflections on Student Activism’

In the late sixties we were so fed up we wanted to destroy it all. That's when we changed the name of America and stuck in the "k." The mood today is different, and the language that will respond to today's mood will be different. Things are so deteriorated in this society, that it's not up to you to destroy America, it's up to you to go out and save America. The same impulse that helped us fight our way out of one empire 200 years ago must help us get free of the Holy Financial Empire today. The transnationals – with their money in Switzerland, headquarters in Luxembourg, ships in tax-free Panama, natural resources all over the emerging world, and their sleepy consumers in the United States – do not have the interest of the United States at heart. Ronald Reagan and the CIA are traitors to America, they have sold it to the Holy Financial Empire. The enemy is out there, he's not in this room. People are allowed to have different visions and different views, but you have to have unity.
Abbie Hoffman;
‘Reflections on Student Activism’

[Ishoutandscream2]

1. Shit, has it been 18 years?

Man, time flies when you're getting old.

[nashville_brook]

3. tee hee -- now, THAT's funny.

[Ishoutandscream2]

4. Well, ya know, don't trust anyone over 30, er, 40, er 50

It keeps climbing, doesn't it?

[nashville_brook]

2. big k 'n r -- thank you for the Abbie reminder!

[Ravy]

5. Steal this thread!!! nt

[ClayZ]

6. Thank you! K and R

[DinahMoeHum]

7. "Dear Abbie". . .a "Groucho Marxist" if there ever was one

:patriot:

[byronius]

8. Dude altered my existence.

1982 Kerouac Conference. Boulderado Hotel. What a Human Being.

Miss Him Still.

[undergroundpanther]

9. I set my chickens free

I read Abbie's books when I was in elementary middle school. He is one of my heroes. He was an inspiration.I would love to have been there levitating the pentagon.Steal this book ,revolution for the hell of it..everyone of his books..treasures..and he got me into freak bros.comics.Fat Freddy's cat is the shit.