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

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

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

The 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.

A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

Lest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer.

The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.