Jerry Rubin quotes:
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Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.
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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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Don't trust anyone over thirty
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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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Don't trust anyone over thirty.
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American youth is looking for a reason to die.
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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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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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The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
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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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A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.
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The backseat produced the sexual revolution.
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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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...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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Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.
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Our parents are our first oppressors.
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I'm famous. That's my job.
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I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.
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The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.
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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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We create revolution by living it.
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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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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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The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed.
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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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High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.
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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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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.