The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics.… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is.… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
It should be borne in mind that the target is always trying to shift responsibility to get out of being the target.… — 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
It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization.… — 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
In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive. — 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
