Jerry Rubin Quotes & Sayings

American youth is looking for a reason to die. — Jerry Rubin

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. — Jerry Rubin

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

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

The backseat produced the sexual revolution. — Jerry Rubin

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. — Jerry Rubin

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. — Jerry Rubin

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. — Jerry Rubin

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

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. — Jerry Rubin

I'm famous. That's my job. — Jerry Rubin

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

Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy. — Jerry Rubin

High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America. — Jerry Rubin

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

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature. — Jerry Rubin

We create revolution by living it. — Jerry Rubin

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. — Jerry Rubin

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power. — Jerry Rubin

Don't trust anyone over thirty. — Jerry Rubin

The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power. — Jerry Rubin

A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require. — Jerry Rubin

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

The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed. — Jerry Rubin

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. — Jerry Rubin