The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a 'dangerous enemy.'

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.

To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of operation... If you start with nothing, demand 100 percent, then compromise for 30 percent, you're 30 percent ahead.

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. That means working in the system.

is a dangerous enemy.

An unsuspected enemy is doubly dangerous.