The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share
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
The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share
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… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share
One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share
