As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

Quote by Saul Alinsky

Topics: Illusions Quotes, Order Quotes, Politics Quotes, Reality Quotes

Last guys don't finish nice.

Last guys don't finish nice.

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.

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...

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

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...

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...

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

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...

History is a relay of revolutions.

History is a relay of revolutions.

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...

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...

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 greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

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...

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow...

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow...

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith...

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith...

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they...

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they...

We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But...

We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But...

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.