Never let a crisis go to waste

The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be.

America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.

The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind.

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