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.
- Saul Alinsky
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The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at
The fourth rule is: “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.” You can kill... Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, “Is this true?” “Just because... We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for,... America’s corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a... Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to... The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the... It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.
Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America’s white middle class. That is... Radicals, on the other hand, want to advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy... The despair is there; now it’s up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of... True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system... They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we... Control healthcare and you control the people
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