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Saul Alinsky

30 January 1909-12 June 1972

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Curiosity is impossible without irreverence. Nothing is sacred to the questioneer. He detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality, rebels against any repression of a free, open search of ideas no matter where they may lead. He is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest.

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Democracy is a live being. And like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

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The Revolutionary is truest when rather than flaunting their radicalism, they cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.