Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989)

Abbot Howard Hoffman was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") and was a member of the Chicago Seven. He was also a leading proponent of the Flower Power movement.

Quotes

Democracy is not something that you believe in, or something that you hang your hat on. It's something that you do, you participate. Without participation, democracy crumbles and fails. If you participate, you win, and the future is yours.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Revolution
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting.
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.
Its embarrassing, you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on a Best Sellers List.