Organizing Quotes

200 quotes by 166 authors

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision. — Paul Wellstone
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. — Paul Wellstone
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. — Paul Wellstone
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children… — Marianne Williamson
A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person. — Howard Rheingold
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and… — Erich Fromm
(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes,… — Nick Hornby
For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned. — Benjamin Franklin
Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process… — Jaron Lanier
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection,… — Frederic Bastiat
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first… — Richard Dawkins
The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not a… — Michael Pollan
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. — Richard Dawkins
Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need… — Michael Sandel
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these… — Cory Doctorow
I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family. — Mairead Corrigan
We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the… — R. Buckminster Fuller
A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life… — Michael Sandel
Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than the transformation of… — Dennis Kucinich

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