To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of operation... If you start with nothing, demand 100 percent, then compromise for 30 percent, you're 30 percent ahead. Saul Alinsky More Quotes by Saul Alinsky More Quotes From Saul Alinsky There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future. Saul Alinsky man future faith death The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. Saul Alinsky than thing more threat Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. Saul Alinsky future change attitude people 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. That means working in the system. Saul Alinsky think change believe world Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores. Saul Alinsky been three divided want
