The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Last guys don't finish nice.

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.

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.

The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.