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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 threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.
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My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.
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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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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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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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A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
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A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
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Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction.
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Always remember the first rule of power tactics power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
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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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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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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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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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A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.
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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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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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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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