Saul David Alinsky is generally considered the father of community organizing.
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“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
“Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have”
“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.”
“Always remember the first rule of power tactics: 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 in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.”
“Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”
“Last guys don't finish nice.”
“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.”
“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”
“We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.”