Saul Alinsky
Saul Alinsky
Saul David Alinskywas an American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing. He is often noted for his 1971 book Rules for Radicals...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth30 January 1909
CountryUnited States of America
people events doe
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.
capitalist-economy identity movement
The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized labor is predicated upon the basic premise of collective bargaining between employers and employees. This premise can obtain only for an employer-employee type of society. If the labor movement is to maintain its own identity and security, it must of necessity protect that kind of society.
black-and-white racism community
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
moral problem
Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.
threat
The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.
enemy dogma form
Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.
purpose tactics pressure
Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
opportunity destiny people
My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.
long tactics drag
A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
people together care
Do you like people? Most people claim that they like people with, of course, a "few exceptions." When the exceptions are added together it becomes clear that they include a vast majority of the people. It becomes equally clear that most people like just a few people, their kind of people, and either do not actively care for or actively dislike most of the "other" people.
dream moving mean
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.
ongoing compromise conflict
A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.
acceptance accepting sudden-death
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.
confusion people retreat
The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat.