Saul Alinsky
Saul Alinsky
Saul David Alinskywas an American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing. He is often noted for his 1971 book Rules for Radicals...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth30 January 1909
CountryUnited States of America
negative enough rules-for-radicals
If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.
people
The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.
accepting establishment laughed
The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at
issues firsts negotiation
No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.
revolution relays
History is a relay of revolutions.
enemy dogma form
Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.
two people labor
Power goes to two poles-to those who've got the money and those who've got the people.
4th-of-july enemy individual
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
angel men order
The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree.
mean organization community
The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.
men devil kingdoms
The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.
loyalty spring rights
The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and freedom to subscribe to multiple loyalties in matters of religion, economics, and politics rather than to a total loyalty to the state. The spirit of democracy is the idea of importance and worth in the individual, and faith in the kind of world where the individual can achieve as much of his potential as possible.
eye past hair
The people of America are red, white, black, yellow, and all the shades in between. Their eyes are blue, black, and brown, and all the shades in between. Their hair is straight, curly, kinky, and most of it in between. They are tall and short, slim and fat, athletic and anaemic, and most of them in between. They are the different peoples of the world becoming more and more the "in between." They are a people creating a new bridge of mankind in between the past of narrow nationalistic chauvinism and the horizon of a new mankind--a people of the world. Their face is the face of the future.
mean achieve results
The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.