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Abbie Hoffman — Part 30
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ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN
“know! know!, and we're right, that they'll accept that
cynicism, that they'll say, well, we ought to have a place to
live too, you know; hippies ought to have a place to live,
we're as good as anybody else. We're better!! You say we're
better, we got ali the answers. They say, what the answers
say? We're working on them. We ain't telling you ‘cause you
ain't in the revolution." (Laughter and clapping)
“You wait, you want to see power, you want to see = _.
what the court system is about, you go on trial and the first
time that you hear an injustice or an untruth come out of a
lying witness or the prosecutor or the judge you stand up and
say no. Then you'll find out exactly what the court system is
about. You want to find out what the military is about, you say
no. You want to fin ut wi } 1 about, you say
no. You tell young kids, we belong in another nation. We ain't
in this nation, we don't understand it. We got chromosome damage,
we never take baths, we're spaced-out freaks, we're freaks, freaks,
anything you want to call us--communists, pinko, freaking, fucking
fag, hippie, revolutionaries, we don't give a shit. Then they say,
well why don't you salute the flag? It ain't my flag! You tell
that to seven-year-old kids, ‘cause they're going to make the
revolution. If they don't understand it, then you gotta go back
to the drawing board, or back to the pool hall, or out on the
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