Human Beings Do Not Like To Look

You Cannot Meet Today's Crisis Tomorrow.

We Must Believe That It Is The Darkest Before The Dawn Of A Beautiful New World. We Will See It When We Believe It.

From The Moment The Organizer Enters A Community He Lives, Dreams... Only One Thing And That Is To Build The Mass Power Base Of What He Calls The Army. Until He Has Developed That Mass Power Base, He Confronts No Major Issues.... Until He Has Those Means And Power Instruments, His Tactics Are Very Different From Power Tactics. Therefore, Every Move Revolves Around One Central Point: How Many Recruits Will This Bring Into The Organization, Whether By Means Of Local Organizations, Churches, Service Groups, Labor Unions, Corner Gangs, Or As Individuals.

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.

Organized Business Has Assumed That Greater Profits Would Be Pretty Much Of A Cure-all, And It Has To A Major Extent Ignored The Fact That The Welfare Of Business Rests Upon The Welfare Of The Consumers Of A Nation; That Business Or Free Enterprise Will Function In A Democracy Only So Long As The Democracy Functions.