Saul Alinsky Quotes
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Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
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There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
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We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.
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Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
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The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
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People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.
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History is a relay of revolutions.
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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
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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.
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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.