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
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
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
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
– 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.