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Abbie Hoffman — Part 29
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ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN
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"We're just going to pull off and do our thing and the
ecard table, card house is going to come crumbling down. Well, I'll
tell you it's falling on our (obscene) heads. We're like two
trains running and they were going full speed right in that court-
house; just like that on the same track, And I'll tell you if we
don't figure out how to derail that other (obscene) train before
it's too late, it's going to take us with it. And I'll tell you
revolution is about life, it's not about dying. You don't die
for the revolution, you live for it.
"I said I want to confess because I felt the Government
was calling me an enemy of the state and I am an enemy of the state.
“Everybody in the whole (obscene) world saw what happened
in the streets of Chicago. Everybody knows what happened there.
Everybody knows Mayor Daley and his cohorts were responsible for
that. There isn't a court in America where you could put that
pig on trial and you believe it. The only court in America that
you can put that pig on trial is in the streets and that's where
we're going to have our jury of the peers in the streets of this
country. It's going to be a long, hot summer if Bobby doesn't
get out; it's going to be a burning, (obscene) fall and the whole
winter is going to burn. Because he's not there, he's not there
because of some murder in New Haven; he's there because he's the
chairman of the Black Panther Party."
A characterization of the Black Panther
Party appears as an appendix hereto.
"We retired, we retired, we deserted, love it or leave
it, Ileft, we left, stick those values because capitalism's got
to go and the protestant (obscene) ethic has got to go too.
Postpone pleasure, put your money in the bank; your life ain't
worth anything unless you got a $50,000 life insurance policy.. |
shove it! We want it and we want it now; we're reasonable, we |
want everything; we're rational, we want it now; we're responsible,
we're going to take it.
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