Saul Alinsky Quotes
In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.
Alinsky, Saul D. Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. Random House, 1971, p. 130.
TR was then a Lieutenant Colonel and the regiment he organized was an unusual combination of Ivy League College men, cowboys from the West, and Black Buffalo Soldiers.
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.
