Saul Alinsky Quotes

"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

"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 in Life 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 in Community quotes.

"Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."
-Saul Alinsky in Power quotes.

"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

"Tactics mean doing what you can with what 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