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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
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Saul David Alinsky
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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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You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.
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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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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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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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Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
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A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.
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The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.
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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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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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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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Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.
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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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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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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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Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.
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Spouting quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara, which are as germane to our highly technological, computerized, cybernetic, nuclearpowered, mass media society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
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History is a relay of revolutions.
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Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.
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