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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 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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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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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 enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.
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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. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be.
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The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.
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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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Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
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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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Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
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A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
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The cry of the Have-Nots has never been give us our hearts, but always get off our backs they ask not for love but for breathing space.
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Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.
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The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.
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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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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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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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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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