Jerry Rubin > Quotes

“Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.”
― Jerry Rubin

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

“The power structure automatically imposes a frame of reference which force people to see things from the Man's point of view. When a policeman shoots a nigger, that's 'law and order.' But when a black man defends himself against a pig, that's 'violence.' The role of the revolutionary is to create public theatre which creates a revolutionary frame of reference. The power to define is the power to control.”
― Jerry Rubin, Do It!: Scenarios of the Revolution

“A society which makes eating a privilege, not a right, has no right to exist.”
― Jerry Rubin, Do It!: Scenarios of the Revolution