We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.

Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be.

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.