Saul Alinsky Quotes
The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
Alinsky, Saul D. Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. Random House, 1971, p. 129.
This is the principle that the terrorist lives by—to inculcate fear of danger in as many people as possible,
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.
