Saul Alinsky Biography

Saul Alinsky
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Saul Alinsky Famous Quotes


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

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

History is a relay of revolutions.
 ~ Saul Alinsky

Last guys don't finish nice.
 ~ Saul Alinsky

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

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
 ~ Saul Alinsky

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
 ~ Saul Alinsky

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
 ~ Saul Alinsky

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
 ~ Saul Alinsky

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