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

The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins

History is a relay of revolutions.

Do one of three things. One, go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing - but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates.

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

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

The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.