108 Quotes by Saul D. Alinsky

The real action is in the enemy’s reaction.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.

The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

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 road not of their choosing.

Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.

No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.

To pander to those who have no stomach for straight language, and insist upon bland, non controversial sauces, is a waste of time. They cannot on deliberately will not understand what we are discussing here.

Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.

In the beginning the organizer’s first job is to create the issues or problems.