First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new. — 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
Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Men don't like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experience; they need a bridge to cross from their own… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of… — 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
