Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is. ... Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority.

Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.

A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

It should be borne in mind that the target is always trying to shift responsibility to get out of being the target. There is a constant squirming and moving and strategy . . . on the part of the designated target. The forces for change must keep this in mind and pin that target down securely. If an organization permits responsibility to be diffused and distributed in a number of areas, attack becomes impossible.

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

If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.