California Uber Alles was the first single by the Dead Kennedys, a Californian punk rock band. The record was released in June of 1979 on lead singer Jello Biafra's label Alternative Tentacles.

The title is an allusion to the first stanza of the national anthem of Germany, "Das Lied der Deutschen", which begins with the words "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles". The word-for-word translation of this verse is "Germany above all", but is better understood to mean I place Germany first. (For historical reasons, this part of the anthem is rarely sung today.)

Part of the song's focus is on then-California Governor Jerry Brown.

"In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
-- George Orwell

"Strike while the irony is hot." --JBR Yant

"Ideas are more dangerous than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?" --Josef Stalin

"[Do not] suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty [to publish] by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice."--John Adams

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead

If you will not fight for your rights when you can easily win without bloodshed -- if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly -- then you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival.
There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. --Winston Churchill