American - Activist | January 30, 1909 - June 12, 1972
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Saul Alinsky
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We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.
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Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
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The first step in community organization is community disorganization.
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'The Prince' was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. 'Rules for Radicals' is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.
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I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
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People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.
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First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.
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There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
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No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
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