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 AlinskyHumor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
Saul AlinskyPick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
Saul AlinskyThe third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.
Saul Alinsky