One Acts Decisively Only In

The Only People Who Become Disillusioned Are People Who Have Illusions.

Organization For Action Will Now And In The Decade Ahead Center Upon America's White Middle Class. That Is Where The Power Is. ... Our Rebels Have Contemptuously Rejected The Values And The Way Of Life Of The Middle Class. They Have Stigmatized It As Materialistic, Decadent, Bourgeois, Degenerate, Imperialistic, War-mongering, Brutalized And Corrupt. They Are Right; But We Must Begin From Where We Are If We Are To Build Power For Change, And The Power And The People Are In The Middle Class Majority.

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.

It Does Not Matter What You Know About Anything If You Cannot Communicate To Your People. In That Event You Are Not Even A Failure. You're Just Not There.

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.