Saul Alinsky Quotes
- Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care…
- Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction…
- We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.
- Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to…
- Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
- A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
- Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
- Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.
- The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is…
- Change comes from power, and power comes from organization.
- Do one of three things. One, go and find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing -- but…
- They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be…
- In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.
- It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we…
- Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.
- Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
- A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point…
- A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
- The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.
- The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.