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30 Best Steal This Book Quotes. There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! Steal This Book.
- Abbie Hoffman, Izak Haber, Bert Cohen, Lisa Fithian, Al Giordano
- 1971
- “Free speech is the right to shout 'theater' in a crowded fire.” ― Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book.
- “Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race.
- “The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.” ― Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book.
- “Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a. commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.” ― Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book.
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A driving force behind the social revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, Hoffman inspired a generation to challenge the status quo. Meant as a practical guide for the aspiring hippie, Steal This Book captures Hoffman's puckish tone and became a cult classic with over 200,000 copies sold.
Jan 1, 1971 · Abbie Hoffman. A driving force behind the social revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, Hoffman inspired a generation to challenge the status quo. Meant as a practical guide for the aspiring hippie, Steal This Book captures Hoffman's puckish tone and became a cult classic with over 200,000 copies sold.
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Steal This Book is a book written by Abbie Hoffman. Written in 1970 and published in 1971, the book exemplified the counterculture of the sixties. The book sold more than a quarter of a million copies between April and November 1971. [2] The number of copies that were stolen is unknown. [3]
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In the introduction to Steal This Book, famous 1960s protest organizer Abbie Hoffman describes the work as "a manual for survival in the prison that is Amerika," spelling the country's name incorrectly to show disrespect for the law.
