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Abbie Hoffman

b: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, Nov 30, 1936

d: Solebury Township, Pennsylvania, USA, Apr 12, 1989

Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman was an American social and political activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). Hoffman was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, along with Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner and Bobby Seale. The group was known collectively as the "Chicago Eight"; when Seale's prosecution was separated from the others, they became known as the Chicago Seven. While initially convicted of intent to incite a riot, the verdicts were overturned on appeal. Hoffman came to prominence in the 1960s, and continued practicing his activism in the 1970s, and has remained a symbol of the youth rebellion and radical activism of that era.

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"If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary."

"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?"

And we were right.

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.

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

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.

It's embarrassing, you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on a Best Sellers List.

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.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. a revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.

Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting.

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

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

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

[Jerry Rubin] said that for hundreds of years political cartoonists had always pictured corrupt politicians in the guise of a pig, and he said that it would be great theater if we ran a pig for President, and we all took that on as like a great idea and that's more or less --- that was the founding.