“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.”
More from Saul D. Alinsky
“Power is not what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”
“Do one of three things: One, go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go…”