The Most Effective Means Are Whatever Will

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.

The Prince Was Written By Machiavelli For The Haves On How To Hold Power. Rules For Radicals Is Written For The Have-nots On How To Take It Away. In This Book We Are Concerned With How To Create Mass Organizations To Seize Power And Give It To The People; To Realize The Democratic Dream Of Equality, Justice, Peace, Cooperation, Equal And Full Opportunities For Education, Full And Useful Employment, Health, And The Creation Of Those Circumstances In Which Man Can Have The Chance To Live By Values That Give Meaning To Life.

Do One Of Three Things. One, Go Find A Wailing Wall And Feel Sorry For Yourselves. Two, Go Psycho And Start Bombing - But This Will Only Swing People To The Right. Three, Learn A Lesson. Go Home, Organize, Build Power And At The Next Convention, You Be The Delegates.

In This World Laws Are Written For The Lofty Aim Of "the Common Good" And Then Acted Out In Life On The Basis Of The Common Greed. In This World Irrationality Clings To Man Like His Shadow So That The Right Things Get Done For The Wrong Reasons - Afterwards, We Dredge Up The Right Reasons For Justification. It Is A World Not Of Angels But Of Angles, Where Men Speak Of Moral Principles But Act On Power Principles; A World Where We Are Always Moral And Our Enemies Always Immoral; A World Where "reconciliation" Means That When One Side Gets The Power And The Other Side Gets Reconciled To It.

Never Do For Someone What They Can Do For Themselves.