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To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of operation... If you start with nothing, demand 100 percent, then compromise for 30 percent, you're 30 percent ahead.
— Saul Alinsky
Tags: nothing, ahead, you, beautiful

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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.
— Saul Alinsky
Tags: believe, you, death, life
A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
— Saul Alinsky
Tags: becomes, too, drag, long
History is a relay of revolutions.
— Saul Alinsky
Tags: revolutions, history
Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.
— Saul Alinsky
Tags: people, future, change, attitude
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
— Saul Alinsky
Tags: ridicule, weapon, most, man
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