The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.

True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.

The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

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

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.