Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing.

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

The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

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

Change means movement. Movement means friction.