All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new. — 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
Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The first step in community organization is community disorganization. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Many of the lower middle class are members of labor unions, churches, bowling clubs, fraternal, service, and nationality organizations. They are organizations… — 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
The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power… — 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
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
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
