Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common,… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Baltimore is a beautiful city. I started doing a lot of community organizing back in 1999 and met so many great people… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
It is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should… — Saul Copy Share Image
Before running for the Washington State Senate in 2014, I had spent 20 years as an activist. I had always believed that… — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
All the eight years of [Barack] Obama when [George W.] Bush was asked repeatedly, "I don't do that. I had my time.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Obama’s formative background is the left-wing fever swamp of Chicago “community organizing,” a gussied-up term for systematic rabble-rousing that has now become… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
I've done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don't wait for people to come… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
Michelle and Barack [Obama] epitomize what my father set the stage for - they epitomize global community organizing. I'm a global child,… — Malaak Shabazz Copy Share Image
Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it. — Ayanna Pressley Copy Share Image
The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“The big organizing model that can fuel revolutions believes that communities are filled with talented and intelligent people who understand what is… — Becky Bond Copy Share Image
“public statements condemning segregation, sharply worded telegrams to Washington, and meetings with White House officials—were demonstrably ineffectual. New and more dramatic measures… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
[Barack] Obama isn't pointing to anyone, and certainly doesn't like it when others note (correctly) that his influences were the likes of… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
If you look at history, every major realignment in our politics is a joining together of a new generation and emerging technologies.… — David Gergen Copy Share Image
“When I started doing community organizing in Boston's neighborhoods, working on all the issues that had affected my family - violence, poverty,… — Michael Patrick MacDonald Copy Share Image
Hopefully folks will look at the good things that I've done over the years, you know, my 10 years in Congress, my… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image