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Saul Alinsky

Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) was an American political theorist. He is known for developing strategies for community organizing and political activism, including the book Rules for Radicals.


'Power comes out of the barrel of a gun!’ is an absurd rallying cry when the other side has all the guns.

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

Conflict is the essential core of a free and open society.

Great dangers always accompany great opportunities. The possibility of destruction is always implicit in the act of creation.

It is the schizophrenia of a free society that we outwardly espouse faith in the people but inwardly have strong doubts whether the people can be trusted.

Men must change with the times or die.

Parts of the far left have gone so far in the political circle that they are now all but indistinguishable from the extreme right.

The basic requirement for the understanding of the politics of change is to recognize the world as it is.

The power of a gun may be used to enforce slavery, or to achieve freedom.

You can miss the target by shooting too high as well as too low.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.