If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. 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 change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.