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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.