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Saul Alinsky
American
Activist
About the author
Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
Saul Alinsky,
American
Activist
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
Saul Alinsky,
American
Activist
#Enemy
#Freedom
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Saul Alinsky,
American
Activist
#Enemy
#Power
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
Saul Alinsky,
American
Activist
#Life
#Death
#Cause
#Care
#Reputation
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,
American
Activist
#Time
#Life
#Play
#Mother
#Father
#Politics
#Bed
#Corruption
Last guys don't finish nice.
Saul Alinsky,
American
Activist
History is a relay of revolutions.
Saul Alinsky,
American
Activist
#History
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,
American
Activist
#World
#Change
#Conflict
Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Saul Alinsky,
American
Activist
#Enemy
#First
#Power
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,
American
Activist
#Family
#First
#Community
We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.
Saul Alinsky,
American
Activist
#Will
#World
#Dawn