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A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.
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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If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.
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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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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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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction.
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You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.
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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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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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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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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 nonpartisan people are those who are dead.
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.
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History is a relay of revolutions.
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