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Change means movement. Movement means friction.
Saul Alinsky
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Saul Alinsky
Age: 63 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 30
Died: 1972
Died: June 12
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Human Rights Activist
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Saul David Alinsky
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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 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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Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.
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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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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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The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.
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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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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
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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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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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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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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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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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Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.
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Spouting quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara, which are as germane to our highly technological, computerized, cybernetic, nuclearpowered, mass media society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
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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.
Saul Alinsky
America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.
Saul Alinsky
The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.
Saul Alinsky
Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.
Saul Alinsky
In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.
Saul Alinsky
