Rules For Radicals Quotes

• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

  Saul Alinsky

  Peace, Gun, Government

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.37, Vintage

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• Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

  Saul Alinsky

  Hurt, Cutting, People

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• Control healthcare and you control the people

  Saul Alinsky

  People, Healthcare

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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 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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• The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.

  Saul Alinsky

  Men, Devil, Kingdoms

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.9, Vintage

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• A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism.

  Saul Alinsky

  Order, Evil, Political

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.10, Vintage

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• One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

  Saul Alinsky

  Angel, Devil, Sides

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.10, Vintage

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• The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Organization, Community

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• The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.

  Saul Alinsky

  War, Mean, Ethics

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.29, Vintage

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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 thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

  Saul Alinsky

  Target, Tactics, Radical

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

  Saul Alinsky

  Events, Different, Purpose

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.6, Vintage

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• If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.

  Saul Alinsky

  Negative, Enough, Hard

  "How Ann Coulter and the Far Right Are Using the Lefty Playbook to Troll Berkeley" by Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. April 26, 2017.

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• From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.

  Saul Alinsky

  Dream, Sleep, Army

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• 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

  Change, Mean, Vacuums

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.21, Vintage

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• Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.

  Saul

  Men, Weapons, Ridicule

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• Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.

  Jon Voight

  Book, Fool, Administration

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• Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.

  Saul Alinsky

  Men, Weapons, Impossible

  "Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals".

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• Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

  Saul Alinsky

  Issues, Hot, Action

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• The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody.

  Saul Alinsky

  Real, Mean, Men

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• Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

  Saul Alinsky

  Power, Thinking, Enemy

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage

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• It is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.

  Saul

  Mean, Thinking, World

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