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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

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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.

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No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

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'The Prince' was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. 'Rules for Radicals' is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

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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.

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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.

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All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.

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We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.

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History is a relay of revolutions.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: January 30th, 1909

Died: June 12th, 1972

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