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.

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.

The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.

One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at