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A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

Saul Alinsky

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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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A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
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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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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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Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
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Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.
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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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The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.
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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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A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.
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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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No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.
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Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.
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