Jerry Rubin Quotes

I am a child of America. If ever I'm sent to Death Row for my revolutionary 'crimes,' I'll order as my last meal: a hamburger, french fries, and a coke.

Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.

We create revolution by living it.

...in your living room, you're scared shitless. And that's just where the power structure wants you. In the middle of a riot, I've never found anybody who's chickenshit. The way to eliminate fear is to do what you're most afraid of.

Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors.

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

Don't trust anyone over thirty

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

All money represents theft… To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true.

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

Revolution is profitable. So the capitalists sell it... The hip capitalists have some allies within the revolutionary community: longhairs who work as intermediaries between the kids on the street and the millionaire businessmen.

You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's... very important to ignore the negative.

Our strategy was to give Judge Hoffman a heart attack. We gave the court system a heart attack, which is even better.

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.

The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed.

Our parents are our first oppressors.

I'm famous. That's my job.

Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.

American youth is looking for a reason to die.

We had a sense of importance that would have led us to risk our lives for our rhetoric.

I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.

The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.

The jobs are there, but, particularly for working adults, traditional education just isnt going to cut it. New ways for training that meet the real-life requirements for adults are critically important.

The problem of fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you do can alter the name.