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. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#change #conflict #friction #means #movement

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#bed #child #corrupting #corruption #father

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#before #believe #darkest #dawn #must

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#freedom #greatest #himself #individual #individual freedom

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#black family #chronological #community #entrance #exit

Last guys don't finish nice. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#guys #last #nice

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#mean #tactics #you

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#enemy #first #only #power #remember

History is a relay of revolutions. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#relay #revolutions

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#only #power #thinks #you