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
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden youre 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
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
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. – Saul Alinsky
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. – Henry David Thoreau