Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The

Action Comes From Keeping The Heat On. No Politician Can Sit On A Hot Issue If You Make It Hot Enough.

Once You Accept Your Own Death, All Of A Sudden You're Free To Live. You No Longer Care About Your Reputation. You No Longer Care Except So Far As Your Life Can Be Used Tactically To Promote A Cause You Believe In.

From The Moment The Organizer Enters A Community He Lives, Dreams... Only One Thing And That Is To Build The Mass Power Base Of What He Calls The Army. Until He Has Developed That Mass Power Base, He Confronts No Major Issues.... Until He Has Those Means And Power Instruments, His Tactics Are Very Different From Power Tactics. Therefore, Every Move Revolves Around One Central Point: How Many Recruits Will This Bring Into The Organization, Whether By Means Of Local Organizations, Churches, Service Groups, Labor Unions, Corner Gangs, Or As Individuals.

True Revolutionaries Do Not Flaunt Their Radicalism. They Cut Their Hair, Put On Suits And Infiltrate The System From Within.

Men Don't Like To Step Abruptly Out Of The Security Of Familiar Experience; They Need A Bridge To Cross From Their Own Experience To A New Way. A Revolutionary Organizer Must Shake Up The Prevailing Patterns Of Their Lives - Agitate, Create Disenchantment And Discontent With The Current Values, To Produce, If Not A Passion For Change, At Least A Passive, Affirmative, Non-challenging Climate.