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Abbie Hoffman — Part 29

130 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Apr 13, 1970 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 128 pages OCR'd
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ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN "We have to redefine the langu —— me et ee ee oe Te the we {ska io a Bur ient Vulr’ selves to is talk about institutional violence. a eee "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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