Its perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail. — Abbie Hoffman

"The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I aint going."

"In the nineteen-sixties, apartheid was driven out of America. Legal segregation — Jim Crow — ended. We didnt end racism, but we ended legal segregation. We ended the idea that you can send a million soldiers ten thousand miles away to fight in a war that people do not support. We ended the idea that women are second-class citizens. Now, it doesnt matter who sits in the Oval Office. But the big battles that were won in that period of civil war and strife you cannot reverse. We were young, we were reckless, arrogant, silly, headstrong … and we were right! I regret nothing!"

"There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think Ive learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge."

"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. When all todays isms have become yesterdays ancient philosophy, there will still be reactionaries and there will still be revolutionaries. No amount of rationalization can avoid the moment of choice each of us brings to our situation here on the planet. I still believe in the fundamental injustice of the profit system and do not accept the proposition there will be rich and poor for all eternity."

"All you kiddies remember to lay off the needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon."

"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."