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A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
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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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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An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth - truth to him is relative and changing everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations.
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You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.
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Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
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A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
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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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The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.
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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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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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A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.
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Always remember the first rule of power tactics power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
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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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Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
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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 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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No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.
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Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.
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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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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 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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