Quotes by Saul Alinsky

Saul Alinsky

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

Compromise

Ongoing

Society

A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

Enjoy

People

Tactics

A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage — the political paradise of communism.

Evil

Order

Political

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.

Black And White

Community

Racism

A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don’t know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless. They won’t act for change but won’t strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution

Mean

Past

Self

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

Drag

Long

Tactics

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

Action

Hot

Issues

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

Enemy

Power

Thinking

America’s corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.

America

Arrogance

Spiritual

An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth – truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing…. To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations.

Different

Doe

Reality

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Acceptance

Accepting

Achieve

Action

Adventure

Airports

Alive

Alternatives

Always Trying

America

Angel

Army

Arrogance

Asking

Attitude

Beautiful

Believe

Black And White

Blow

Book

Breathing

Bridges

Can Do

Capitalist Economy

Care

Change

Children

Christian

Civilization

Class

Community

Compassion

Compromise

Confusion

Creativity

Crisis

Cutting

Dark

Death

Decision

Democracy

Despair

Destiny

Devil

Diarrhea

Dictatorship

Different

Disillusioned

Doe

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Quotes by Saul Alinsky

Saul Alinsky

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

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.

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

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

America’s corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.

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