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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.
Saul Alinsky
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Saul Alinsky
Age: 63 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 30
Died: 1972
Died: June 12
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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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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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Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
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Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
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The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.
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The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.
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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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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
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Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.
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Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.
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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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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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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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History is a relay of revolutions.
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The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.
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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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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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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 enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.
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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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