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The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.

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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
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Saul David Alinsky
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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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Last guys don't finish nice.
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Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.
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Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.
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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 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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The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins
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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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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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Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.
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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.
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History is a relay of revolutions.
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The cry of the Have-Nots has never been give us our hearts, but always get off our backs they ask not for love but for breathing space.
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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
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The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.
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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 price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
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Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
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In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.
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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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