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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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Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

~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.

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Last guys don't finish nice.

~Saul Alinsky

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A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

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Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public benefactor. I remember one time when he arrived at his box seat in Dyche Stadium for a Northwestern football game on Boy Scout Day, and 8,000 scouts got up in the stands and screamed in cadence, 'Yea, yea, Big Al. Yea, yea, Big Al.'

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I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.

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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.

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There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.

~Saul Alinsky

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: January 30th, 1909

Died: June 12th, 1972

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