Never let a crisis go to waste

Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

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.

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

Lest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer.

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.