Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste

The Price Of A Successful Attack Is A Constructive Alternative.

As An Organizer I Start From Where The World Is, As It Is, Not As I Would Like It To Be.

Men Don't Like To Step Abruptly Out Of The Security Of Familiar Experience; They Need A Bridge To Cross From Their Own Experience To A New Way. A Revolutionary Organizer Must Shake Up The Prevailing Patterns Of Their Lives - Agitate, Create Disenchantment And Discontent With The Current Values, To Produce, If Not A Passion For Change, At Least A Passive, Affirmative, Non-challenging Climate.

The Fact That People Are Poor Or Discriminated Against Doesn't Necessarily Endow Them With Any Special Qualities Of Justice, Nobility, Charity Or Compassion.

They Have The Guns And Therefore We Are For Peace And For Reformation Through The Ballot. When We Have The Guns Then It Will Be Through The Bullet.