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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
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Saul David Alinsky
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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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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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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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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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You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.
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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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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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If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.
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An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth - truth to him is relative and changing everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations.
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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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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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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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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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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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Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.
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No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.
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Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.
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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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The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.
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