Once You Accept Your Own Death, All

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.

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.

Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.

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

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.