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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
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Chicago
Illinois
Saul David Alinsky
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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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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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Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
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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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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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Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
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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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The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.
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The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.
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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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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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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.
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The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.
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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
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Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
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No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.
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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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