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Only Quotes by Saul Alinsky
- 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…
- Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
- Do one of three things. One, go and find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing -- but…
- The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends…
- From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power base of what…
- One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.
- My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control…
- From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power…
- Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
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