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

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Saul Alinsky
Age: 63 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 30
Died: 1972
Died: June 12
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Saul David Alinsky
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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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In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.
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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 greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
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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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Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.
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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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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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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 end is what you want and the means is how you get it.
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The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.
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