Saul Alinsky

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

"I have on occasion remarked that I felt confident that I could persuade a millionaire on a Friday to subsidize a revolution for Saturday out of which he would make a huge profit on Sunday even though …"

"It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You're just not there."

"The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical."

"Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear the most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our p…"

"The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space."

"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history , the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishm…"

"For an elementary illustration of tactics, take parts of your face as the point of reference; your eyes, your ears, and your nose. First the eyes; if you have organized a vast, mass-based people’s org…"