--- title: "12 Organizer Quotes By Saul Alinsky" description: "12 Organizer quotes by Saul Alinsky. Plus more from Saul Alinsky and more Organizer sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/844/saul-alinsky-3048_change_the-despair-is-there-now-it-s-up-to-us-t_2154516.jpg" --- > [The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/the-despair-is-there-now-it-s-up-to-us-to-go-in-and-rub-raw-the-sores/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/844/saul-alinsky-3048_change_the-despair-is-there-now-it-s-up-to-us-t_2154516.jpg) > [The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/the-organizer-dedicated-to-changing-the-life-of-a-particular/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0d/saul-alinsky-3048_anger_the-organizer-dedicated-to-changing-the_3151949.png) > [In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/in-the-beginning-the-organizer-s-first-job-is-to-create-the-issues-or/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0b/saul-alinsky-3048_beginning_in-the-beginning-the-organizer-s-first-j_1478848.png) > [As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/as-an-organizer-i-start-from-where-the-world-is-as-it-is-not-as-i/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94a/saul-alinsky-3048_organizer_as-an-organizer-i-start-from-where-the-w_1056176.png) > [True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/true-revolutionaries-do-not-flaunt-their-radicalism-they-cut-their/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a64/saul-alinsky-3048_cutting_true-revolutionaries-do-not-flaunt-their_1891336.png) > [From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/from-the-moment-an-organizer-enters-a-community-he-lives-dreams-eats/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f97/saul-alinsky-3048_army_from-the-moment-an-organizer-enters-a-co_1458608.png) > [As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/as-an-organizer-i-start-from-where-the-world-is-as-it-is-not-as-i-3/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88a/saul-alinsky-3048_accepting_as-an-organizer-i-start-from-where-the-w_2258780.png) > [From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/from-the-moment-the-organizer-enters-a-community-he-lives-dreams-only/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/526/saul-alinsky-3048_army_from-the-moment-the-organizer-enters-a-c_2030831.jpg) > [Men don't like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experience; they need a bridge to cross from their own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/men-don-t-like-to-step-abruptly-out-of-the-security-of-familiar/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f2/saul-alinsky-3048_affirmative_men-don-t-like-to-step-abruptly-out-of-t_2754633.jpg) > [The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/the-organizers-first-job-is-to-create-the-issues-or-problems-and/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/438/saul-alinsky-3048_community_the-organizers-first-job-is-to-create-th_515478.png) > [The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/the-organizer-must-become-schizoid-politically-in-order-to-slip-into/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8d/saul-alinsky-3048_action_the-organizer-must-become-schizoid-polit_2700731.png) > [An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/an-organizer-working-in-and-for-an-open-society-is-in-an-ideological/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f8/saul-alinsky-3048_changing-everything_an-organizer-working-in-and-for-an-open_456402.png) ## Other authors on Organizer ## More by Saul Alinsky > [The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/the-threat-is-usually-more-terrifying-than-the-thing-itself/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) > [The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/the-very-first-radical-known-to-man-who-rebelled-against-the/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) > [I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/i-ve-never-joined-any-organization-not-even-the-ones-i-ve-organized/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) > [Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public benefactor. I remember one time when he arrived at his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/everybody-owned-stock-in-the-capone-mob-in-a-way-he-was-a-public/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/first-rule-of-change-is-controversy-you-can-t-get-away-from-it-for/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) > [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/radicals-on-the-other-hand-want-to-advance-from-the-jungle-of-laissez/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) > [Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/pick-the-target-freeze-it-personalize-it-and-polarize-it-cut-off-the/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) > [The first step in community organization is community disorganization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/the-first-step-in-community-organization-is-community-disorganization/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) > [Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/power-just-goes-to-two-poles-to-those-who-ve-got-money-and-those-who/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) > [The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/the-establishment-can-accept-being-screwed-but-not-being-laughed-at/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) > [To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of operation... If you start with nothing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/to-the-organizer-compromise-is-a-key-and-beautiful-word-it-is-always/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) > [Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/power-is-not-only-what-you-have-but-what-the-enemy-thinks-you-have/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) > [The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/the-standards-of-judgment-must-be-rooted-in-the-whys-and-wherefores/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) > [Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/organized-business-has-assumed-that-greater-profits-would-be-pretty/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) > [One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/one-acts-decisively-only-in-the-conviction-that-all-the-angels-are-on/) [Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/organizer/saul-alinsky/#itemlist", "name": "12 Organizer Quotes By Saul Alinsky", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The despair is there; 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