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

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
Sociologist
Trade Unionist
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Chicago
Illinois
Saul David Alinsky
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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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One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.
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A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.
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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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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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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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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 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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Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
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The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.
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Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
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The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
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Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
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You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.
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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 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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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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In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.
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Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.
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