“I suggest that those who live in the past don't want a confrontation with the present. I believe that white Americans welcome the present race violence and that under the surface reactions of horror and shock is very deep relief.… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Senility is a relinquishment of life as it is in the here and now and the taking of refuge into the security and familiarity of the past. When life becomes too confusing, too complex, too strange, too much, then you… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“To face the days ahead we must ask two questions: first, "Where are we?" and second, "Where do we go from here?" We Americans… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Some say it’s no coincidence that the question mark is an inverted plow, breaking up the hard soil of old beliefs and preparing for… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Today everything is so complex as to be incomprehensible. What sense does it make for men to walk on the moon while other men… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“I suggest that those who live in the past don't want a confrontation with the present. I believe that white Americans welcome the present… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Senility is a relinquishment of life as it is in the here and now and the taking of refuge into the security and familiarity… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“The road to fascism and dictatorship is paved with apathy, hopelessness, frustration, futility, and despair in the masses of people. It is this fear… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“The great American dream that reached out to the stars has been lost to the stripes. We have forgotten where we came from, we… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“History is made up of "moral" judgments based on politics. We condemned Lenin's acceptance of money from the Germans in 1917 but were discreetly… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“You regard yourself as tolerant, and in that one adjective you most fittingly describe yourself. You really don’t like people you tolerate them. You… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“In the world as it is, man moves primarily because of self-interest. In the world as it is, the right things are usually done… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Process tells us how. Purpose tells us why. But in reality, it is academic to draw a line between them, they are part of… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Politically we feel alienated, rejected, and hopeless. The chasm between the people and their political representatives has widened to a terrifying degree. In a… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
