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.

  Jerry Rubin

  Children, America, Order

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

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  Live Your Life, Vote

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• We create revolution by living it.

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  Revolution

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• ...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.

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  Want, Way, Rooms

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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

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  Country, Parent, Firsts

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• 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.

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  Strong Women, Sex, Tough

  Jerry Rubin (2014). “Growing (Up) at 37”, p.113, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Don't trust anyone over thirty

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  Trust, Thirty, Don't Trust Anyone

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• The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

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  Power, Situation, Ultimate

  Jerry Rubin (2014). “Growing (Up) at 37”, p.104, Rowman & Littlefield

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

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  New York, Cities, Theater

  Jerry Rubin (2014). “Growing (Up) at 37”, p.15, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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.

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  Religious, Men, Self

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• 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.

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  Kids, Community, Hips

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Yesterday

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• The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed.

  Jerry Rubin

  Imperialism, Capitalist, Destroyed

  "Howard Smith: The counter-cultural correspondent's interviews from Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda to Raquel Welch". Interview with Howard Smith, www.independent.co.uk. October 18, 2015.

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• High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.

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  School, America, Minorities

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

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  Heart, Giving, Judging

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• 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.

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  Gun, Pigs, Labels

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• Our parents are our first oppressors.

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  Parent, Firsts, Oppressors

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• I'm famous. That's my job.

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  Jobs

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

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  Social, Wealthy, Our Time

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• American youth is looking for a reason to die.

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  Youth, Reason, American Youth

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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

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  Risk, Importance, Rhetoric

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

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  Would Be, Myth, Ifs

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• The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.

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  Individual, Checks, Ultimate

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Real, Cutting

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

  Jerry Rubin

  Frozen, Problem, Fame

  "Growing (Up) at 37".

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