Organizer Quotes

• I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.

  Cesar Chavez

  Leadership, Hard Work, Talking

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• An organizer is a leader who does not lead but gets behind the people and pushes.

  Fred Ross

  People, Leader, Doe

  Fred Ross, Sr. “Axioms for Organizers: Trailblazer for Social Justice”, Fred Ross, Sr.

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• True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

  Saul Alinsky

  Cutting, Hair, Radicalism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

  Saul Alinsky

  Change, Despair, Social

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• I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

  Mother Jones

  Men, Shoes, Economic Inequality

  "Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Mary Harris Jones, edited by Mary Field Parton, (p. 46), 2004.

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• Right now we have an economy in trouble, and someone who spent their career in the economy is more suited to help fix the economy than someone who spent his life in politics and as a community organizer.

  Mitt Romney

  Careers, Community, Helping

  "Romney Defends Bain Record, Hits Obama on Economy: ‘He Just Doesn’t Have a Clue’". swampland.time.com. May 23, 2012.

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• An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth - truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations.

  Saul Alinsky

  Reality, Doe, Different

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• Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago put up on college campuses. I was at the University of Kansas, and it's somewhat relevant to my life and work that I'm a Jew. But they weren't doing a religious litmus test. They wanted energetic, civil-rights-committed college students to come help them run some summer programs.

  Sara Paretsky

  Summer, Running, Religious

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• He has made us the master organizers of the world . . . to overwhelm the forces of reaction throught the earth . . . . This is the divine mission of America . . . . We are trustees of the world's progress, guardians of its righteous peace. [Progressive]

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Inspirational, God, Usa

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• I must consider the organizer as more important than the discoverer.

  Wolfgang Ostwald

  Science, Discovery, Important

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• As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

  Saul Alinsky

  Reality, World, Rules For Radicals

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.19, Vintage

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• We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together.

  Cesar Chavez

  Heart, Pride, Together

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• A good organizer is key to anyone with a busy social life.

  Neil Strauss

  Keys, Busy, Social

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• I thought Brittany Packnett, who was one of the Ferguson activists, really interesting, smart young lady, really impressive - you might want to talk with her. So she was one of the organizers of the Ferguson movement, ended up joining our task force. She came in here and she just knew her stuff.

  Barack Obama

  Smart, Interesting, Tasks

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• In every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some people become immobilized. Some people become very angry, some commit suicide, and other people begin to find solutions. And visionary organizers look at those people, recognize them and encourage them, and they become leaders of the future.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Suicide, School, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he's lecturing us about how America's gone "soft"? Really?

  Jonah Goldberg

  College, Years, America

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• I felt my country should do more for its children. Its children are not born gangsters. In fact, they have in them the potential to be heroes because most of the kids who are in these gangs are leaders, very charismatic and good organizers.

  Azim Khamisa

  Country, Children, Hero

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

  Saul Alinsky

  Jobs, Issues, Firsts

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• The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a “dangerous enemy.

  Saul

  Jobs, Enemy, Bait

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• Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Running, Thinking, Museums

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• Someone has said that planning is the place where man shows himself most like God. Nothing is more godlike than the planner, the thinker, the organizer. He is the one who draws the blueprint for success. He is the one who builds the roadway on which accomplishment will travel. It is likely that our greatest opportunity is to have a good set of definitely worked-out objectives that are fully believed in and about which firm determinations have been made.

  Sterling W Sill

  Determination, Men, Opportunity

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• He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Order, Cities, Evil

  "The Final Problem" (1893)

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• I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

  Sarah Palin

  Responsibility, Community, Towns

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

  Al Lewis

  Agriculture, North Carolina, Unions

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• Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

  Jesse Jackson

  Community, Used, Know How

  "Some Layer of the Excitement is Gone". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. August 08, 2011.

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