Jerry Rubin Quotes

#1. American youth is looking for a reason to die.

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#2. The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

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

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#4. The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed.

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

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#6. High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. I'm famous. That's my job.

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#11. 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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#12. A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.

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

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#14. Don't trust anyone over thirty.

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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.

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#18. 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.

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#19. We create revolution by living it.

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

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#21. The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.

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#22. The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. 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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