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Saul Alinsky Quotes: If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.
         

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.


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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.



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