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.
—Saul Alinsky
Topics: Community
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara… are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
—Saul Alinsky
Topics: Quotations
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
—Saul Alinsky
Topics: Corruption
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
—Saul Alinsky
Topics: Power
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
—Saul Alinsky
Topics: Individuality
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
—Saul Alinsky
Topics: Change
As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be
—Saul Alinsky
Topics: Illusion
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