"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."
— Democracy

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Abbie Hoffman, Tikkun (July-August 1989); also quoted in The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why the Left is Right (2004) by William P. Martin, p. 51