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Saul Alinsky
Age: 63 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 30
Died: 1972
Died: June 12
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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 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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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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The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.
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The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.
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The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.
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A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
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The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.
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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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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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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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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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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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Last guys don't finish nice.
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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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A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
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In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.
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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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