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Saul Alinsky

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Saul Alinsky
Age: 63 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 30
Died: 1972
Died: June 12
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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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Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.
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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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As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be.
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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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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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No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.
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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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History is a relay of revolutions.
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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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Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
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The despair is there now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.
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A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
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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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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 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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The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.
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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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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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