The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

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

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.

The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree.

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