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The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.

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Saul Alinsky
Age: 63 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 30
Died: 1972
Died: June 12
Activist
Human Rights Activist
Sociologist
Trade Unionist
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Chicago
Illinois
Saul David Alinsky
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Change means movement. Movement means friction.
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Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
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The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
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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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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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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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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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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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History is a relay of revolutions.
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The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.
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My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.
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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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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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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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