#organizing

Since I had the inclinatation and the training, helping people came naturally. I wasn't thinking in terms of organizing members, but just a duty that I had to do. That goes back to my mother's training. It was not until later that I realized that this was a good organizing tool, although maybe unconsciously, I was already beggining to understand. But I was used by people for a long time until I wised up. It wasn't that they wanted to do it, but that I was not prepared or able to tell them what to do in return. My work was just another war on poverty gimick, which is what happens when people are given everything and don't give anything in return. you can't mold them into any action. Well, one night it just hit me. Once you helped people, most became very loyal. The people who helped us back when we wanted volunteers were the people we had helped. So I began to get a group of those people around me. Once I realized helping people was an organizing technique, I increased that work. I was willing to work all day and night and go to hell and back for people- provided they also did something for the CSO in return. I never felt bad asking for that. It didn't contradict my parents' teachings, because I wasn't asking for something for myself. For a long time we didn't know how to put that work together into an organization. But we learned after a while- we learned how to help people by making them responsible. Today it's the same principle with the Union. And it works. We don't get everybody, but we get enough to get that nucleus. I think solving problems for people is the only way to build solid groups. ↗

— César Chávez

#povery #unions #nature

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in. ↗

— John Green

#factor #hopefully #i #i always #organizing

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#alternative #around #importantly #key #more

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. ↗

— David Broder

#campaigning #much #office #organizing #presidency

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. ↗

— A. A. Milne

#mixed #organizing #something #up #you

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#against #attention #critical #detail #devoting

Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#came #donna #event #father #group

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. ↗

— Tom Peters

#around #building #cause #common #community

The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#been #carried #during #effect #employed

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#law #must #order #organizing #peace