Human Beings Do Not Like

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.

A Racially Integrated Community Is A Chronological Term Timed From The Entrance Of The First Black Family To The Exit Of The Last White Family.

Organized Religion Has Too Often Followed The Road Of Other People's Institutions. It Has Made Adjustments, Compromises, And Surrenders To A Materialistic Civilization For The Benefit Of Material Security In Spite Of Occasional Twinges Of Conscience And Moral Protests. The Result Has Been That Today Much Of Organized Religion Is Materialistically Solvent But Spiritually Bankrupt.

Do You Like People? Most People Claim That They Like People With, Of Course, A "few Exceptions." When The Exceptions Are Added Together It Becomes Clear That They Include A Vast Majority Of The People. It Becomes Equally Clear That Most People Like Just A Few People, Their Kind Of People, And Either Do Not Actively Care For Or Actively Dislike Most Of The "other" People.

The Cry Of The Have-nots Has Never Been "give Us Our Hearts," But Always "get Off Our Backs"; They Ask Not For Love But For Breathing Space.