Asking A Sociologist To Solve A Problem

From The Moment An Organizer Enters A Community, He Lives, Dreams, Eats, Breathes, Sleeps Only One Thing, And That Is To Build The Mass Power Base Of What He Calls The Army.

The Human Spirit Glows From That Small Inner Light Of Doubt Whether We Are Right, While Those Who Believe With Certainty That They Possess The Right Are Dark Inside And Darken The World Outside With Cruelty, Pain, And Injustice.

The First Step In Community Organization Is Community Disorganization. The Disruption Of The Present Organization Is The First Step Toward Community Organization. Present Arrangements Must Be Disorganized If They Are To Be Displace By New Patterns.... All Change Means Disorganization Of The Old And Organization Of The New.

A Marxist Begins With His Prime Truth That All Evils Are Caused By The Exploitation Of The Proletariat By The Capitalists. From This He Logically Proceeds To The Revolution To End Capitalism, Then Into The Third Stage Of Reorganization Into A New Social Order Of The Dictatorship Of The Proletariat, And Finally The Last Stage -- The Political Paradise Of Communism.

The Fact That People Are Poor Or Discriminated Against Doesn't Necessarily Endow Them With Any Special Qualities Of Justice, Nobility, Charity Or Compassion.