Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste

Those Who Are Most Moral Are Farthest From The Problem.

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.

The Thirteenth Rule Of Radical Tactics: Pick The Target, Freeze It, Personalize It, And Polarize It.

Tactics Mean Doing What You Can With What You Have.

An Organizer Working In And For An Open Society Is In An Ideological Dilemma To Begin With, He Does Not Have A Fixed Truth - Truth To Him Is Relative And Changing; Everything To Him Is Relative And Changing.... To The Extent That He Is Free From The Shackles Of Dogma, He Can Respond To The Realities Of The Widely Different Situations.