Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste

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.

Power Just Goes To Two Poles — To Those Who've Got Money, And Those Who've Got People.

The Organized Labor Movement As It Is Constituted Today Is As Much A Concomitant Of A Capitalist Economy As Is Capital. Organized Labor Is Predicated Upon The Basic Premise Of Collective Bargaining Between Employers And Employees. This Premise Can Obtain Only For An Employer-employee Type Of Society. If The Labor Movement Is To Maintain Its Own Identity And Security, It Must Of Necessity Protect That Kind Of Society.

My Only Fixed Truth Is A Belief In People, A Conviction That If People Have The Opportunity To Act Freely And The Power To Control Their Own Destinies, They'll Generally Reach The Right Decisions.

The Price Of A Successful Attack Is A Constructive Alternative.