Bumper Stickers!

[queerbychoice]

My official First Bumper Sticker Ever arrived in the mail today. It says:

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

Actually I think "democracy" is the wrong word, because I'm not that big a fan of "democracy" and I certainly don't equate the term with fairness. But Abbie Hoffman said "democracy" and I think that will suffice to get the basic message across.

I bought it here. I also bought "END SANCTIONS ON IRAQ NOW", "QUESTION GENDER", "QUEER: bold or daring, brave, original, unrestrained by existing conventions, uninhibited", and a set of politically-themed magnetic poetry. But I haven't applied the other bumper stickers yet, because I want to spend time contemplating whether, which, and where I want to apply any others. So the Abbie Hoffman is the first, because I knew exactly where I wanted to put it (right in the center).

I am happy. My car is beautiful.

Comments

Some more of this cliche nonsense pap

[(Anonymous)]

"Civil liberties are always safe as long as their exercise doesn't bother anyone."
- New York Times editorial, January 3, 1941

"They gave me a medal for killing a man, and a discharge for loving one."
- Sergeant Leonard Matlovich

"The human heart has hidden treasures."
- Charlotte Brontë

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
- Aesop

"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."
- Victor Hugo

"To love another person is to see the face of God."
- Les Misérables

"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."
- William Shakespeare

"The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live."
- Frederico Garcia Lorca, 1933

"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"
- Charles de Gaulle

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
- Albert Einstein

"A hero is a man who does what he can."
- Romain Rolland

"Blushing is the colour of virtue."
- Diogenes

"Look up and not down, Look out and not in,
Look forward and not back, and lend a hand."
- Edward Everett Hale

"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest;
the first are blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."
- George Bancroft, Address, Historical Society, New York, 1854

"If you can read this you are driving toooo close!" -
Abbie Hoffman

[(Anonymous)]

How about: "You measure democracy by the stupidity of the bumper stickers"