Saul Alinsky Quotes

Saul Alinsky — American Activist born on January 30, 1909, died on June 12, 1972

Saul David Alinsky was a Jewish American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing. He is often noted for his book Rules for Radicals... (wikipedia)

Tactics mean doing what you can with what 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.

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.

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.

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.