Top 36 Quotes by Saul Alinsky

About Saul Alinsky

These are some quotes by American author Saul Alinsky Activist, who lived between January 30, 1909 and June 12, 1972.

The first step in community organization is community disorganization.

The first step in community organization is community disorganization.

Saul Alinsky

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.

Saul Alinsky

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Saul Alinsky

Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores.

Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores.

Saul Alinsky

If the ends don't justify the means, what does?

If the ends don't justify the means, what does?

Saul Alinsky

Last guys don't finish nice.

Last guys don't finish nice.

Saul Alinsky

I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.

I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.

Saul Alinsky

Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing. In short, radicals must have a degree of control over the flow of events.

Saul Alinsky

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.

Saul Alinsky

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

Saul Alinsky

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