Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.

Never do for someone what they can do for themselves.

An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth - truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

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.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.