Abbie Hoffman: Rebel of the Sixties

The sixties were a time of radical change for America. A time when there was a decline in what was thought to be normal. Family values and morals were a thing of the past. There was an increase in drug use, casual and premarital sex. This was just the beginning of the changing times. There were many people fighting for their rights. There were protests and demonstrations for every cause imaginable and in the middle …

…Who’s gonna go to jail? …Then we got into the underground movement. Because we became famous, we got thrust into a national leadership position because we were able to mobilize a number of national demonstrators without being forced to go underground, exiled, dead, be in prison. But in a sense, that number had been done. I’m a product of my environment. I’m more a symbol than a leader (Sloman 285-287).” -Abbie Hoffman