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The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.
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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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 only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.
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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.
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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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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
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One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.
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No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.
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The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.
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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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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 preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins
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The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.
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Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
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You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.
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A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
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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 enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.
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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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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 end is what you want and the means is how you get it.
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