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.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

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

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

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.