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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 greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
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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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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 enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.
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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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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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Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.
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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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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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An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth - truth to him is relative and changing everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations.
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A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
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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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Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.
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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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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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Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
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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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A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
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No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.
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The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.
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