Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.

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.

The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree.