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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
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Chicago
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Saul David Alinsky
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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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The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.
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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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A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
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In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.
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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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A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.
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The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.
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A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
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I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism…The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide.
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They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.
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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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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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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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Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
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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 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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Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
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