Saul D. Alinsky

“You regard yourself as tolerant, and in that one adjective you most fittingly describe yourself. You really don’t like people you tolerate…

— Saul D. Alinsky

“Today everything is so complex as to be incomprehensible. What sense does it make for men to walk on the moon while…

— Saul D. Alinsky

“Some say it’s no coincidence that the question mark is an inverted plow, breaking up the hard soil of old beliefs and…

— Saul D. Alinsky

“Senility is a relinquishment of life as it is in the here and now and the taking of refuge into the security…

— Saul D. Alinsky

“Process tells us how. Purpose tells us why. But in reality, it is academic to draw a line between them, they are…

— Saul D. Alinsky

“The great American dream that reached out to the stars has been lost to the stripes. We have forgotten where we came…

— Saul D. Alinsky

“I suggest that those who live in the past don't want a confrontation with the present. I believe that white Americans welcome…

— Saul D. Alinsky

“The road to fascism and dictatorship is paved with apathy, hopelessness, frustration, futility, and despair in the masses of people. It is…

— Saul D. Alinsky

“To face the days ahead we must ask two questions: first, "Where are we?" and second, "Where do we go from here?"…

— Saul D. Alinsky

“In the world as it is, man moves primarily because of self-interest. In the world as it is, the right things are…

— Saul D. Alinsky

“Politically we feel alienated, rejected, and hopeless. The chasm between the people and their political representatives has widened to a terrifying degree.…

— Saul D. Alinsky

“History is made up of "moral" judgments based on politics. We condemned Lenin's acceptance of money from the Germans in 1917 but…

— Saul D. Alinsky