Never Do For Someone What They Can

I Prize My Own Independence Too Much. And Philosophically, I Could Never Accept Any Rigid Dogma Or Ideology, Whether It's Christianity Or Marxism…the Greatest Crimes In History Have Been Perpetrated By Such Religious And Political And Racial Fanatics, From The Persecutions Of The Inquisition On Down To Communist Purges And Nazi Genocide.

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.

A Marxist Begins With His Prime Truth That All Evils Are Caused By The Exploitation Of The Proletariat By The Capitalists. From This He Logically Proceeds To The Revolution To End Capitalism, Then Into The Third Stage Of Reorganization Into A New Social Order Of The Dictatorship Of The Proletariat, And Finally The Last Stage -- The Political Paradise Of Communism.

The People Of America Are Red, White, Black, Yellow, And All The Shades In Between. Their Eyes Are Blue, Black, And Brown, And All The Shades In Between. Their Hair Is Straight, Curly, Kinky, And Most Of It In Between. They Are Tall And Short, Slim And Fat, Athletic And Anaemic, And Most Of Them In Between. They Are The Different Peoples Of The World Becoming More And More The "in Between." They Are A People Creating A New Bridge Of Mankind In Between The Past Of Narrow Nationalistic Chauvinism And The Horizon Of A New Mankind--a People Of The World. Their Face Is The Face Of The Future.

Pick The Target, Freeze It, Personalize It, And Polarize It. Cut Off The Support Network And Isolate The Target From Sympathy. Go After People And Not Institutions; People Hurt Faster Than Institutions. (this Is Cruel, But Very Effective. Direct, Personalized Criticism And Ridicule Works.)