If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.

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

I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism…The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide.

Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

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

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