The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Lest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology and history… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair. If… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Let the liberal turn to the course of action, the course of all radicals, and the amused look vanishes from the face… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Radicals, on the other hand, want to advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy of the name of… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The American people were, in the beginning, Revolutionaries and Tories. The American people ever since have been Revolutionaries and Tories. They have… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“There were those few, and there will be more, who really liked people, loved people—all people. They were the human torches setting… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share
I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share
Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public benefactor. I remember one time when he arrived at his… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share
First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share
Radicals, on the other hand, want to advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy of the name of human civilization.… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share
Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share
To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of operation... If you start with nothing,… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share
The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share
Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share
One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share
