Quote

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.

Saul Alinsky

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Saul Alinsky
Age: 63 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 30
Died: 1972
Died: June 12
Activist
Human Rights Activist
Sociologist
Trade Unionist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Saul David Alinsky
Process
Forced
Radicals
Action
Reactions
Adaptable
Political
Sensitive
Resilient
Enough
Radical
Tactics
Must
Avoid
Shifting
Road
Choosing
Travel
Trapped
Circumstances
Reaction

More quotes by Saul Alinsky

Image
If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.
Saul Alinsky
Image
The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.
Saul Alinsky
Image
Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
Saul Alinsky
Image
History is a relay of revolutions.
Saul Alinsky
Image
The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.
Saul Alinsky
Image
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.
Saul Alinsky
Image
Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.
Saul Alinsky
Image
A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
Saul Alinsky
Image
Always remember the first rule of power tactics power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Saul Alinsky
Image
The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins
Saul Alinsky
Image
The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.
Saul Alinsky
Image
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.
Saul Alinsky
Image
A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
Saul Alinsky
Image
America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.
Saul Alinsky
Image
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
Saul Alinsky
Image
Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.
Saul Alinsky
Image
In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.
Saul Alinsky
Image
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.
Saul Alinsky
Image
The cry of the Have-Nots has never been give us our hearts, but always get off our backs they ask not for love but for breathing space.
Saul Alinsky
Image
The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
Saul Alinsky