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Saul Alinsky Inspirational Quotes (61)

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The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.
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The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
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The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.
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History is a relay of revolutions.
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The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.
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As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be.
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Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.
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America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.
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No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.
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Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing.
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Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end.
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The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.
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The despair is there now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.
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A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.
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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
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The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.
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One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.
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In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of the common good and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.
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Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
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The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins
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In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.
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Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
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Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
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Many of the lower middle class are members of labor unions, churches, bowling clubs, fraternal, service, and nationality organizations. They are organizations and people that must be worked with as one would work with any other part of our populations - with respect, understanding, and sympathy.
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