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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
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Human Rights Activist
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Chicago
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Saul David Alinsky
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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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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
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The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.
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The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.
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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 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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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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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.
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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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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 price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
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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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You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.
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The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.
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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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The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins
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Change means movement. Movement means friction.
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Last guys don't finish nice.
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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.
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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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