Jerry Rubin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 #Order #America
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

#Strong #Sex #Men
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

#Country #Parent #Firsts
...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

#Want #Way #Rooms
We create revolution by living it.
-- Jerry Rubin

#Revolution
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

#Mistake #Thinking #Yesterday
Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.
-- Jerry Rubin

#Social #Wealthy
I'm famous. That's my job.
-- Jerry Rubin

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

#Would Be #Myth
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

#Gun #Pigs #Labels
All money represents theftâ€¦ To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true.
-- Jerry Rubin

#Religious #Men #Self
A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.
-- Jerry Rubin

#Skills #Difficulty #Workers
The backseat produced the sexual revolution.
-- Jerry Rubin

#Sex #Revolution #Backseat
Our strategy was to give Judge Hoffman a heart attack. We gave the court system a heart attack, which is even better.
-- Jerry Rubin

#Heart #Giving #Judging
Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.
-- Jerry Rubin

#New York #Cities #Theater
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

#Kids #Community #Allies
Don't trust anyone over thirty
-- Jerry Rubin

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

#Frozen #Problem #Fame
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.
-- Jerry Rubin

#Jobs #Real #Cutting
The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
-- Jerry Rubin

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

#Risk #Importance #Rhetoric
The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.
-- Jerry Rubin

#Individual #Checks #Ultimate

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