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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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Saul David Alinsky
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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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Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
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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 most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.
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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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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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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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The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.
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A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.
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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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Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.
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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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The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.
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The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.
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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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I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism…The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide.
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