Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
Saul AlinskyThey 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.
Saul AlinskyThe third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.
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