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The first step in community organization is community disorganization. - Saul Alinsky
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A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. - Saul Alinsky
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Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. - Saul Alinsky
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If the ends don't justify the means, what does? - Saul Alinsky
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If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair. If I were organizing in an orthodox Jewish community, I would not walk in there eating a ham sandwich unless I wanted to be rejected so I could have an excuse to cop out. - Saul Alinsky
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Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. - Saul Alinsky
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Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing. In short, radicals must have a degree of control over the flow of events. - Saul Alinsky
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History is a relay of revolutions. - Saul Alinsky
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Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. - Saul Alinsky
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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 go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. - Saul Alinsky
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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. - Saul Alinsky
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The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. - Saul Alinsky
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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 except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. - Saul Alinsky
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To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of operation... If you start with nothing, demand 100 percent, then compromise for 30 percent, you're 30 percent ahead. - Saul Alinsky
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Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have. - Saul Alinsky
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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 of conflict. - Saul Alinsky
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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. - Saul Alinsky
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People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people. - Saul Alinsky
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As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system. - Saul Alinsky
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First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy. - Saul Alinsky
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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. - Saul Alinsky
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Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. - Saul Alinsky
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