35 Quotes by 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.

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

Our parents are our first oppressors.

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.

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.

We create revolution by living it.

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

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

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