"Scans of Abbie Hoffman's writing in The Realist during formation of the Yippie movement, including call to others to meet in Chicago."

“You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”

“It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.”

“My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.”

“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 today's isms have become yesterday's 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.”

“The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.”

“A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.”