Saul Alinsky Quotes

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Don't underestimate the people. Let them decide.

We do have the power to kind of make this world what we want it to be. But we have to just choose to do it ourselves and not wait for someone else.

Nobody is powerless.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.

All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

Nobody will save us from us but us.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Values are rooted in a basic optimism about life and a faith in free will.

If you are living in a free society then use the freedom. What good is freedom if you do not use it.

Men must make their history themselves through their own actions