“ 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
“ If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair. If I were organizing in an orthodox Jewish community, I would not wa… Saul Alinsky
“ Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a… Saul Alinsky
“ 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
“ I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much. Saul Alinsky
“ First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and hea… Saul Alinsky
“ There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future. Saul Alinsky
“ 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. Saul Alinsky
“ Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futurel… Saul Alinsky
“ 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 y… Saul Alinsky
“ As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it… Saul Alinsky
“ My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions. Saul Alinsky
“ 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
“ There were those few, and there will be more, who really liked people, loved people—all people. They were the human torches setting aflame the hearts of men so that they passionately fought for the ri… Saul Alinsky
