Organizer Quotes - Page 2

• Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

  Seth Godin

  Profit, Instigators, Kickstarter

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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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• I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate, i spent five and a half years as the solicitor-general of Texas, the chief lawyer for the state of Texas in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

  Ted Cruz

  Texas, Years, Community

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• I don't agree with the Black Lives Matter organizers. They are stated as anti-capitalists. And it's much more than just the police to them. It's about changing society entirely.

  Glenn Beck

  Police, Black, Matter

  "Glenn Beck Speaks At Conservative Blog 'RedState' Gathering". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. August 13, 2016.

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• I learned from the Macarturos. I had never been at a table with a labor organizer and a playwright and a performance artist and an anthropologist and a human rights lawyer. Usually at most gatherings, it's all writers. But suddenly I was at a table with all these different people and I learned from each of them, learned from the work they're doing, learned new ways to solve my problems.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Artist, Rights, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• I've heard from lots of organizers in the [Bernie] Sanders campaign, both paid and unpaid. I have heard from lots of them. We have not heard from the Sanders campaign. I do not expect to hear from the Sanders campaign. But you know, it's not over until it's over. So we remain open to that possibility. As Bernie said himself, it's not about a man, it's a movement.

  Jill Stein

  Men, Campaigns, Possibility

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I, however, fear that at some future point there will possibly be concerted backlash against us because of our successes in business and other ventures. I fear this because I see a concerted effort by writers across the countries to sway public opinions by past AIM organizers

  Leonard Peltier

  Country, Past, Effort

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their defense of freedom and justice.

  Leonard Peltier

  Justice, Training, Defense

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• Donald Trump has built a super successful business. He's an effective organizer. He's an effective execution-oriented executive. He has the right political personality to get on with people in a way that'll surprise people. He will cut deals in a way that are more favorable for America than what establishment politicians have done.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Cutting, Successful, America

  Source: gawker.com

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• All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on gang violence, I was a community organizer in Newark, New Jersey, and when I spoke to the Black Caucus, congressional and state, I realized they were going all the way for Hillary [Clinton] and so was the Latino caucus in Sacramento and I asked myself this question: "Do I really want to cast my vote against these people who have been central to my life and to the soul of the country?" And so I went with them. Period.

  Tom Hayden

  Country, Book, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the leading women's rights advocates gained experience as organizers and lecturers.

  Manisha Sinha

  Rights, Movement, Forget

  Source: www.bostonglobe.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.

  Cesar Chavez

  Looks, Reactionaries

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• We need more leaders among our gente - more teachers, politicians, businesspeople, organizers, and such. Turn the energy that many young people are putting into "war" and "death" and put it into life and true justice.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Teacher, War, People

  Interview with Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, www.epl.org. June 29, 2011.

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• I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of social change. My role isn't to make choices for people-each individual or group needs to do that on their own. But as a writer and a speaker, you can describe possibilities that perhaps haven't been visible before, and aren't in other public dialogues or in the rest of the media. So I suppose I think of myself mainly as an organizer and as someone who describes possibilities.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Media, People

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.

  Julianne Malveaux

  President, Chicago, Roles

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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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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• 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 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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• 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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