As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

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.

True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

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.

Control healthcare and you control the people

Never let a crisis go to waste

History is a relay of revolutions.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

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.

The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

The art of seduction should be from within yourself, not from your outer appearance. If whoever you're doing this for doesn't realize that... then, honey, you're seducing the wrong person.

She was home, the passage walls, memorabilia of Ben's life, past and present, welcomed her like a doting grandmother.

Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be damaged? Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be weak in some places?

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking you can't buy friendships.

I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.

making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.