Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. - Saul Alinsky 1 Share Now -
First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy. - Saul Alinsky 2 Share Now -
Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. - Saul Alinsky 3 Share Now -
It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there. - Saul Alinsky 4 Share Now -
There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future. - Saul Alinsky 5 Share Now -
There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future. - Saul Alinsky 6 Share Now -
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. That means working in the system. - Saul Alinsky 8 Share Now -
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. - Saul Alinsky 9 Share Now -
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 10 Share Now -
