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

Quote by Saul Alinsky

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As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as...

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as...

History is a relay of revolutions.

History is a relay of revolutions.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first...

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first...

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

Last guys don't finish nice.

Last guys don't finish nice.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You...

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You...

Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have...

Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have...

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new...

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new...

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first...

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first...

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract...

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract...

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother...

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother...

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the...

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the...

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to...

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to...

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

Politics are the divine science, after all

Politics are the divine science, after all