Saul Alinsky Quotes

• Never let a crisis go to waste

  Saul Alinsky

  Waste, Crisis

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• The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.

  Saul Alinsky

  Jobs, Expression, Organization

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• Ellos tienen las armas y por eso nosotros estamos por la paz y por la reforma a través de la bala. Cuando tengamos las armas será a través de la bala.

  Saul Alinsky

  Peace, Gun, Government

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.37, Vintage

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• Los verdaderos revolucionarios no alardean de su radicalismo. Se cortan el pelo, se ponen trajes y se infiltran en el sistema desde dentro.

  Saul Alinsky

  Cutting, Hair, Radicalism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Control healthcare and you control the people

  Saul Alinsky

  People, Healthcare, Rules For Radicals

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• Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

  Saul Alinsky

  Hurt, Cutting, People

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• 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.

  Saul Alinsky

  Order, Evil, Political

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.10, Vintage

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• El primer radical conocido por el hombre que se rebeló contra la clase dirigente y lo hizo con tanta eficacia que al menos ganó su propio reino: Lucifer.

  Saul Alinsky

  Men, Devil, Kingdoms

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.9, Vintage

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• The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

  Saul Alinsky

  Change, Despair, Social

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• Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.

  Saul Alinsky

  Men, Weapons, Impossible

  "Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals".

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• In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

  Saul Alinsky

  Jobs, Issues, Firsts

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• 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.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Organization, Community

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• 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.

  Saul Alinsky

  Angel, Men, Issues

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• Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is. ... Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority.

  Saul Alinsky

  War, Class, Organization

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• If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

  Saul Alinsky

  Pensamiento, Gente, Problema

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• If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.

  Saul Alinsky

  Negative, Enough, Rules For Radicals

  "How Ann Coulter and the Far Right Are Using the Lefty Playbook to Troll Berkeley" by Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. April 26, 2017.

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• The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.

  Saul Alinsky

  War, Mean, Ethics

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.29, Vintage

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• Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.

  Saul Alinsky

  Events, Different, Purpose

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.6, Vintage

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• The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

  Saul Alinsky

  Christian, Book, Enemy

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.6, Vintage

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• Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.

  Saul Alinsky

  Letting Go, Attitude, Acceptance

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• The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Achieve, Results

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• 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

  Black And White, Racism, Community

  Quoted in Jonathon Green, Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982)

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• It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.

  Saul Alinsky

  Angel, Men, Enemy

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.13, Vintage

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• Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea.

  Saul Alinsky

  Asking, Problem, Diarrhea

  "Saul Alinsky: A candid conversation with the feisty radical organizer". Interview with Eric Norden, Playboy, 19 (3), March 1972.

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• Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

  Saul Alinsky

  Successful, Essentials, Weapons

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.75, Vintage

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