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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5
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"Degree is great. You can sit on it; you can
scribble notes on the back; you can frame it. Put it on
the wall. The only thing you can’t do with it is to make !
a revolution. And that is what is needed in this country.
“And like it ain't gonna be all that serious stuff
like the left is putting down. You know, sacrifices, guilt.
Feel guilty. B--- s----. Feel creative and dig your ow
beauty. Productivity which has got nothing to do with work.
Productivity is something natural that flows out of human
beings. Self-actualizing. Creativity within us. it's natural.
Organic. Develop it. So we're not unhappy. It's called
repression, huh? The Government's in a repression. Oh, big
repression. They take eight of us from all, like, different
styles. You know, head of the Black Panther Party, two guys
that they think are head of SDS, but like anybody from SDS
will tell you, they ain't the heads of SDS .. . Davis and
Hayden. Head of the Antiwar Movement, head of the Yippies.
Put them all together and said you guys have got to get together.
You know. That's what Ike said just before he died. He said
don't mourn, Organize. That's what he said. We listened to
him, He is our leader. Last hippie President. Gone to the
golf course in the sky. He was great. Did you see his
funeral? He was hard working. . . hard working! He was on
the golf course. What are. . what're they talking about?
i lived through those years. He was playing golf. He was a
"So they are paper tigers. But they can't figure out
what we are, When we get through with this trial, we gonna
turn all this into confetti. Whoosh! Confetti all over the
Place! Miles and miles of it. Enough for everyone. Because
these acts were like some of the liberals call repression. A
sign that the system ia dying. The emperor's clothes are falling
off, And we are gonna dance and f--~ on the graves of this empire
And we are gonna get together because like we don't have that
many differences, see. It's a whole media, see. It is like
screwing us up. Right. They're going to say. This is it.
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