Saul Alinsky Quotes

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father ...

As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we ac...

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abs...

Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to t...

I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own indepen...

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward...

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in h...

My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act f...

If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and ...

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are...

There were those few, and there will be more, who really liked people, loved people—all people. They...

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that ev...

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your r...