Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Power goes to two poles-to those who've got the money and those who've got the people. — 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 fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people,… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them. — 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
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith…Power is not to be crossed; one must… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Life is there ahead of you and either one tests oneself in its challenges or huddles in the valleys of a dreamless… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic… — 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
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 people of America are red, white, black, yellow, and all the shades in between. Their eyes are blue, black, and brown,… — 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… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The American people were, in the beginning, Revolutionaries and Tories. The American people ever since have been Revolutionaries and Tories. They have… — 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
We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people;… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Do you like people? Most people claim that they like people with, of course, a "few exceptions." When the exceptions are added… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The Capone gang was actually a public utility; it supplied what the people wanted and demanded. — 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
