Saul Alinsky Quotes
I could persuade a millionaire on a Friday to subsidize a revolution for Saturday out of which he would make a huge profit on Sunday even though he was certain to be executed on Monday.
Saul Alinsky, 1909-{19972}, Community Organizer, Rules for Radicals, 1971
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In 1900 Argentina was the 4th richest country in the world and had a gross domestic product about the same size as the United States. Misgovernment, ego, delusion, and corruption have impeded their progress since. However, Argentina has had the largest proportion of European ancestry citizens in Latin America. Prejudice being what it was, the European ancestry Latinos perceived themselves better than the descendants of the native Indians or Black slaves. So Argentinians even to this day tend to see themselves as superior to the other Latin nations. And at one point they were amongst the richest countries. Bolivia, in contrast, has the highest proportion of indigenous people and they most of all resent the Argentine attitude of superiority.
- Born: January 30, 1909
- Died: June 12, 1972
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Community Organizer, Writer, Political Activist
Saul David Alinsky was an American community activist and political theorist. His work through the Chicago-based Industrial Areas Foundation helping poor communities organize to press demands upon landlords, politicians and business leaders won him national recognition and notoriety. Responding to the impatience of a New Left generation of activists in the 1960s, in his widely cited Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer (1971) Alinsky defended the arts both of confrontation and of compromise involved in community organizing as keys to the struggle for social justice.
