Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing. In short, radicals… — 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 trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The first step in community organization is community disorganization. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
