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Saul Alinsky Quotes: Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
         

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.


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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.

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.

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.



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History is a relay of revolutions.



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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.

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 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

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





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