An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth - truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations.

Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.