Arrangements Quote by Saul Alinsky

The first step in community organization is community disorganization.

— Saul Alinsky

For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

— Dalai Lama

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

— Jean Vanier

I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.

— Barack Obama

A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement,

— Blake Mycoskie

There is power in organization. There is power in a community. People have always wanted to destroy communities.

— Ben Hopkins

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

— Robert Reed

When you break up the individuals from a community into individual units, they become disempowered because it's the collective consciousness and the collective energy…

— Bruce H. Lipton

A movement with some lasting organization is a lot less dramatic than a movement with a lot of demonstrations and a lot of marching…

— Cesar Chavez

The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends…

— Carl Rogers

Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the…

— Bill Drayton

I've done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don't wait for people to come to us…

— Tarana Burke