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If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

Saul Alinsky

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Saul Alinsky
Age: 63 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 30
Died: 1972
Died: June 12
Activist
Human Rights Activist
Sociologist
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Chicago
Illinois
Saul David Alinsky
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A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.
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Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
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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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