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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
Illinois
Saul David Alinsky
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History is a relay of revolutions.
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.
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The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.
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The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.
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Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.
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Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.
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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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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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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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A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
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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 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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Change means movement. Movement means friction.
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The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.
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No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.
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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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A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.
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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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The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.
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