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The first step in community organization is community disorganization.

~Saul Alinsky

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Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

~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.

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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.

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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.

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The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.

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If the ends don't justify the means, what does?

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Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

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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.

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The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

~Saul Alinsky

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: January 30th, 1909

Died: June 12th, 1972

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