Jerry Rubin Quotes

You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation.

Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.

I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'

An oppressed people will always rise.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

The glorious spectacle of eighteen millions of people, struggling to burst their chains and be free.

Where were the saints to try and change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but do away with slavery?

Peoples, hear the signal! Arise, for the last battle The International Fights for the Rights of Man! No higher being can save us, No God, no Kaiser, nor tribune Saving us from misery we ourselves alone must do!

The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

It is no longer possible to satirize this state of affairs. Every satire risks becoming a bible for yet another national liberation front. Every satirist risks becoming the founder of a new religion, a Buddha, Zarathustra, Jesus, Muhammad or Marx. Every exposure of the ravages of the dominant system, every critique of the system's functioning, becomes fodder for the horses of liberators, welding materials for builders of armies

The abolition of man-made laws cannot be achieved only through preaching. Those who have usurped the authority of God and are oppressing God's creatures are not going to give up their power merely through preaching.

The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.

Revolution is the right of slaves.

Power Concedes Nothing

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

When people rise, they must have a goal worthy of them. Must paltry goods be of concern to them?... The people must rise up not to collect sugar, but to bring down the tyrants.