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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
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Saul David Alinsky
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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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Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.
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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 threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.
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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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Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.
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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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The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.
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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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Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.
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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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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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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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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction.
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The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.
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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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The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.
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No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.
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The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.
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