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Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.

Saul Alinsky

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Saul Alinsky
Age: 63 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 30
Died: 1972
Died: June 12
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Human Rights Activist
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Saul David Alinsky
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The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.
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Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end.
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