America’s corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.
Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.
History is a relay of revolutions.
As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.
Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea.
Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of “the common good” and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.
The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.
The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins.
Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.
The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.
You cannot meet today’s crisis tomorrow.
A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.
The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means...
Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they’ll generally reach the right decisions.
Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.