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
facts fountainhead rules-for-radicals
It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.
can-do
Never do for someone what they can do for themselves.
airports mao runway
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
father hero mean
The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics. The judgment of history leans heavily on the outcome of success or failure; it spells the difference between the traitor and the patriotic hero. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.
moral problem
Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.
threat
The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.
waste crisis
Never let a crisis go to waste
despair social radical
The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.
4th-of-july enemy individual
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
jobs issues firsts
In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.