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Saul Alinsky Inspirational Quotes (61)

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They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.
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The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.
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One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.
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My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.
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The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.
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The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.
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The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.
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Do one of three things. One, go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing - but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates.
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You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.
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Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.
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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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Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.
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Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
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Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.
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The cry of the Have-Nots has never been give us our hearts, but always get off our backs they ask not for love but for breathing space.
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An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth - truth to him is relative and changing everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations.
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The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.
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Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.
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The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.
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Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.
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Last guys don't finish nice.
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A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
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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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