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Saul Alinsky
Saul Alinsky
American Activist
Born: Jan 30, 1909
Died: Jun 12, 1972
Change Enemy First People Power You
Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony
The first step in community organization is community disorganization. Saul Alinsky
Organization First Community Step First Step
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Saul Alinsky
Pick Freeze Target
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 their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions. Saul Alinsky
Truth Truth Is People Opportunity Power Own Control Conviction Destinies Only Generally Freely Reach Fixed Decisions Act Belief Right Right Decisions
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. Saul Alinsky
Man Weapon Potent Most Ridicule
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
You Change Simple First Rule Simple Reason Issues Friction Get Heat Controversial Controversy Movement Means Reason Away
The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a 'dangerous enemy.' Saul Alinsky
Enemy Dangerous Will Job Attack Bait Him Maneuver Establishment Organizer Publicly
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
Attitude Future Change People Lost Past Our Our People System Willing Must Prevailing Feel Toward Mass Go Passive Affirmative Revolutionary Any Frustrated Let Go Among Defeated Chance
If the ends don't justify the means, what does? Saul Alinsky
Does Ends Justify Means
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
Change World Sense Believe Think Our System Weaken Would Like Accept Does Begin Any Going Where Should Working Means Organizer Start Necessary Desire
The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community. Saul Alinsky
Life People First Community Changing Must Raw Particular Dedicated Organizer Rub
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
Good Freedom Democracy People Free Sacrifice Others Unless Willing Some Ongoing Price Pursuit Common Common Good Cannot Interests Guarantee
All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new. Saul Alinsky
Change Old Organization New Means
I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much. Saul Alinsky
Myself Organization Too Much Independence Own Too My Own Joined Never Prize Any Much Organized Even
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
Communication Walk Organization Long Hair Community Radical Sets Unless Out Would Finds Eating Having Long Hair Could He Excuse Real Ham Were His Up Wanted Psychological Cuts Sandwich Organizing Barriers Cop Orthodox Rejected Jewish Jewish Community
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
Beautiful You Key Word Nothing Percent Compromise Demand Beautiful Word Operation Always Then Organizer Present Start
History is a relay of revolutions. Saul Alinsky
History Relay Revolutions
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. Saul Alinsky
Freedom Enemy Individual Individual Freedom Himself Greatest
Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have. Saul Alinsky
You Tactics Doing Mean
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
Travel Events Political Degree Shifting Own Control Action Trapped Enough Circumstances Must Tactics Road Over Reaction Forced Short Being Process Sensitive Avoid Choosing Radicals Resilient Flow Adaptable
Last guys don't finish nice. Saul Alinsky
Nice Finish Guys Last
We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it. Saul Alinsky
Beautiful World Will Darkest Before Believe Must See Dawn New New World
It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there. Saul Alinsky
Failure You People Communicate Matter About Know Does Just Anything Cannot Your Even Event

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