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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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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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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 good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
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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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Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.
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You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.
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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
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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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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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The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.
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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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No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.
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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 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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In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.
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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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A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
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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 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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