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History is a relay of revolutions.

Saul Alinsky

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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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Many of the lower middle class are members of labor unions, churches, bowling clubs, fraternal, service, and nationality organizations. They are organizations and people that must be worked with as one would work with any other part of our populations - with respect, understanding, and sympathy.
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A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
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The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.
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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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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.
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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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Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
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The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.
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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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One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.
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Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.
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Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
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