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


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

Abbie Hoffman Quotes

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

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

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

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