Organizer Quotes · Page 3

Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago…

— Sara Paretsky

The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.

— Bill McKibben

My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their…

— Leonard Peltier

Seva, love and sacrifice are the basic prerequisites for human development. If you agree with this precept, nurture good will towards all…

— Asaram

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.

— Michael Leunig

Look, we live in a celebrity culture and sometimes you get caught in the wave and the buzz and a lot of…

— Barack Obama

[My father] came over as an immigrant and didn't know any English. He went to work at a sweat shop in Baltimore.…

— Noam Chomsky

The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his…

— Cesar Chavez

I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You…

— Cesar Chavez

We need more leaders among our gente - more teachers, politicians, businesspeople, organizers, and such. Turn the energy that many young people…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer.

— Rachel Holmes

I must consider the organizer as more important than the discoverer.

— Wolfgang Ostwald

Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line,…

— Mary Travers

Right now, we have an economy in trouble. And, someone who spent their career in the economy is more suited to help…

— Mitt Romney

From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build…

— Saul Alinsky

The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do…

— Jimmy Smits

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

— Jesse Jackson

I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade…

— Bob Gunton

Usually, being a volunteer organizer essentially means that I am part of a core base of individuals, that when we start a…

— Eugene Puryear

I've heard from lots of organizers in the [Bernie] Sanders campaign, both paid and unpaid. I have heard from lots of them.…

— Jill Stein

He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

[A.J. Muste] was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He…

— Nat Hentoff

Obama's Marxist mentors - Franklin Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers - also understood that you don't build an army of…

— David Limbaugh

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I…

— Jane Campion