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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 Free And Open Society Is An Ongoing Conflict, Interrupted Periodically By Compromises.

The End Is What You Want, The Means Is How You Get It. Whenever We Think About Social Change, The Question Of Means And Ends Arises. The Man Of Action Views The Issue Of Means And Ends In Pragmatic And Strategic Terms. He Has No Other Problem; He Thinks Only Of His Actual Resources And The Possibilities Of Various Choices Of Action. He Asks Of Ends Only Whether They Are Achievable And Worth The Cost; Of Means, Only Whether They Will Work. ... The Real Arena Is Corrupt And Bloody.

Love And Faith Are Not Common Companions. More Commonly Power And Fear Consort With Faith....power Is Not To Be Crossed; One Must Respect And Obey. Power Means Strength, Whereas Love Is A Human Frailty The People Mistrust. It Is A Sad Fact Of Life That Power And Fear Are The Fountainheads Of Faith.

The Standards Of Judgment Must Be Rooted In The Whys And Wherefores Of Life As It Is Lived, The World As It Is, Not Our Wished-for Fantasy Of The World As It Should Be.