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

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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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

History is a relay of revolutions.

History is a relay of revolutions.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

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...

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

Last guys don't finish nice.

Last guys don't finish nice.

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...

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

What can be said, should never be written

What can be said, should never be written

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle....

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle....

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon...

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon...

The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it...

The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it...

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root...

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root...