Organizer Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• ACORN, you may recall, is the left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Barack Obama. The nonprofit, which now takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers after four decades on the public teat, has a history of engaging in voter fraud, corporate shakedowns, partisan bullying and pro-illegal immigration lobbying. The Democrats' stimulus proposals could make the group - and its lesser known but even more radical ideological allies - eligible for upward of $5 billion in new public cash.

  Michelle Malkin

  Bullying, Wings, Ties

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• Olympic organizers are reportedly struggling to fill rows and rows of empty seats. Empty seats! In fact, yesterday officials put out a casting call asking for 200 Europeans or eight Americans.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Struggle, Eight

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• From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army. Until he has developed that mass power base, he confronts no major issues.... Until he has those means and power instruments, his tactics are very different from power tactics. Therefore, every move revolves around one central point: how many recruits will this bring into the organization, whether by means of local organizations, churches, service groups, labor Unions, corner gangs, or as individuals.

  Saul Alinsky

  Dream, Moving, Mean

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• Seva, love and sacrifice are the basic prerequisites for human development. If you agree with this precept, nurture good will towards all and help people to the best of your ability without expecting anything in return. Don't think, 'I will render service only when the organizers agree with me and not otherwise.' Dear brother! In that case, you will not be able to serve. You will only nurture your ego by making others agree with you.

  Asaram

  Love, Brother, Sacrifice

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• When common sense sees a puzzling phenomenon it looks for a causal agent. When it sees organization it looks for an organizer. This works amazingly well for purposes ranging from the diagnosis of diseases to the creation of governments. But it cannot account for emergence ... the appearance of complex phenomena not predictable from the basic elements and processes alone.

  Carl Bereiter

  Government, Organization, Common Sense

  Carl Bereiter (2005). “Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age”, p.200, Routledge

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• Within two weeks of moving into the White House, Obama signed a series of executive orders championed by union bosses. The new rules authorized sweeping powers for the labor secretary that essentially blackball nonunion contractors targeted by labor organizers and blacklist nonunion employees in the private sector from working on taxpayer-funded projects.

  Michelle Malkin

  Moving, Order, Two

  "Big Labor's Investment in Obama Pays Off" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 13, 2009.

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• Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.

  Mark Steyn

  People, Community, Wish

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• Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line, 'How many years can a people exist, before they're allowed to be free?' in a prison yard for political prisoners in El Salvador; if you have sung it to a group of union organizers, who have all been in jail, in South Korea; if you've sung to Jews in the Soviet Union who have been refused exit visas; if you've sung it with Bishop Tutu protesting apartheid, the song breathes, it lives, it has a contemporary currency.

  Mary Travers

  Song, Wind, Jail

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• I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.

  Ike Turner

  Teaching, Artist, People

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• The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Greatness, Men

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• I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote the book and the organizers invited me and it seemed silly not to go, especially for a relatively unknown first-time author. This is just not my cup of tea; the fewer such events I do on an annual basis, the happier I feel.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Silly, Book, Mean

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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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• The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Interesting, Should, Mass

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• The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree.

  Saul Alinsky

  Angel, Men, Issues

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• The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of personality itself. When we ask of a man, "What is he?" the answer is usually given in terms of his major role, job, or position in society; he is the place that he fills, a painter, a priest, a politician, a criminal.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Jobs, Men, Personality

  KENNETH E. BOULDING (1953). “THE ORGANIZATIONAL REVOLUTION”

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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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• 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 should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be.

  Saul Alinsky

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "The Best Quotes From Saul Alinsky’s 'Rules For Radicals'" by John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. May 03, 2010.

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• The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.

  Saul Alinsky

  Jobs, Expression, Organization

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

  Saul Alinsky

  Jobs, Issues, Firsts

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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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• 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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• You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons

  Grace Slick

  Change, Health, People

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