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The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

- Saul Alinsky
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History is a relay of revolutions.

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.

People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.

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.

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.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Last guys don't finish nice.

If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair. If I were organizing in an orthodox Jewish community, I would not walk in there eating a ham sandwich unless I wanted to be rejected so I could have an excuse to cop out.

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