The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.
Saul AlinskyIn this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.
Saul AlinskyAmerica's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.
Saul AlinskyThe organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized labor is predicated upon the basic premise of collective bargaining between employers and employees. This premise can obtain only for an employer-employee type of society. If the labor movement is to maintain its own identity and security, it must of necessity protect that kind of society.
Saul Alinsky