JERRY RUBIN

The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

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

I'm famous. That's my job.

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

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

We create revolution by living it.

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

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.

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.

The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed.

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

...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.

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

Our parents are our first oppressors.

High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.

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

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.