Jerry Rubin Quotes

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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.

Jerry Rubin

Our parents are waging a genocidal war against their own kids. The economy has no use or need for youth. Everything is already built. Our existence is a crime.

Jerry Rubin

Most men act so strong and tough on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

Jerry Rubin

Our message: Don't grow up. Growing up means giving up your dreams.

Jerry Rubin

The left demands full employment for all – we demand full unemployment for all. The world owes us a living!

Jerry Rubin

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.

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.

Jerry Rubin

Jerry Rubin

Jerry Rubin

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Born: July 14, 1938

Died: November 28, 1994 (aged 56)

Bio: Jerry Clyde Rubin was an American social activist, anti-war leader, and counterculture icon during the 1960s and 1970s. During the 1980s, he became a successful businessman.

Known for:

Do it; scenarios of the revolution (1970)
Growing up at thirty-seven (1976)
We are everywhere (1971)

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