If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.
Saul AlinskyHumor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
Saul AlinskyTheres 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.
Saul Alinsky