Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people … - Saul Alinsky

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And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.

Saul Alinsky

Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.

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The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

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They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

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Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works. )

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Control healthcare and you control the people

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True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

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