Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Control healthcare and you control the people

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

A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don't know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless. They won't act for change but won't strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

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

Radicals, on the other hand, want to advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy of the name of human civilization. They hope for a future where the means of economic production will be owned by all of the people instead of just a comparative handful. They feel that this minority control of production facilities is injurious to the large masses of people not only because of economic monopolies but because the political power inherent in this form of centralized economy does not augur for an ever expanding democratic way of life.