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• I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

  Al Lewis

  Agriculture, North Carolina, Unions

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• The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Interesting, Should, Mass

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• 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.

  Saul Alinsky

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "The Best Quotes From Saul Alinsky’s 'Rules For Radicals'" by John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. May 03, 2010.

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• In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

  Saul Alinsky

  Jobs, Issues, Firsts

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• 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.

  Saul Alinsky

  Dream, Moving, Mean

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• Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

  Jesse Jackson

  Community, Used, Know How

  "Some Layer of the Excitement is Gone". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. August 08, 2011.

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• He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Order, Cities, Evil

  "The Final Problem" (1893)

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• Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he's lecturing us about how America's gone "soft"? Really?

  Jonah Goldberg

  College, Years, America

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• You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons

  Grace Slick

  Change, Health, People

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• Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Running, Thinking, Museums

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• Someone has said that planning is the place where man shows himself most like God. Nothing is more godlike than the planner, the thinker, the organizer. He is the one who draws the blueprint for success. He is the one who builds the roadway on which accomplishment will travel. It is likely that our greatest opportunity is to have a good set of definitely worked-out objectives that are fully believed in and about which firm determinations have been made.

  Sterling W Sill

  Determination, Men, Opportunity

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• The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.

  Saul Alinsky

  Jobs, Expression, Organization

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• [Barack Obama] and Michelle, in my heart, this is my personal feeling, epitomize what my mother and my father were. They are community organizers on a global level.

  Malaak Shabazz

  Mother, Father, Heart

  Source: maxblumenthal.com

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• This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.

  Frank Herbert

  Beautiful, Order, Imagination

  "Heretics of Dune. Chapter: The Atreides Manifesto, Bene Gesserit Archives". Book by Frank Herbert, 1984.

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• People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along.

  Edward T. Hall

  Time, Wall, People

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• The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer on the picket line, the stronger the commitment. A lot of workers think they make their commitment by walking off the job when nobody sees them. But you get a guy to walk off the field when his boss is watching and, in front of the other guys, throw down his tools and march right to the picket line, that is the guy who makes our strike. The picket line is a beautiful thing because it makes a man more human.

  Cesar Chavez

  Beautiful, Jobs, Commitment

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• Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.

  Studs Terkel

  Baseball, Unions, Marvin

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• Mom is a planner, an organizer. She's very strong and practical. She's the person that'll tell me if I ever start to change my personality. The balance of the two of them created my personality.

  Taylor Swift

  Mom, Strong, Two

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• I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Nationality, Anti War

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.63, Beacon Press

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• I enjoy the presence of a woman in the house for brief periods of time. They fall into two categories: the organizers and the slobs. There’s probably a third category—the naggers, who try to get you to do things, but I’ve never run into one of those. Oddly, I have no preference regarding oganizers or slobs, as long as they don’t try to pick my clothes for me. Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees. It works fine if people stick to their fated roles. But nobody does.

  Nelson DeMille

  Running, Fall, Men

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• Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities.

  Sarah Palin

  Jobs, Responsibility, Alaska

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• What first got me involved in politics was being 14, and a youth organizer comes to my house with a van full of 14 year old girls. "Hey, you want to go to the beach with us? But first we're going to go support the cannery workers' strike in Watsonville."

  Boots Riley

  Girl, Beach, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [My father] came over as an immigrant and didn't know any English. He went to work at a sweat shop in Baltimore. He told me later that this guy was coming around, and the guy seemed to be for the workers, so he signed up. It turned out that guy was an IWW organizer . My father didn't regret signing up; he just really didn't know what was going on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Regret, Father, Sweat

  Source: www.iww.org

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• The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer in Chicago at that time. Now I'm sure he read the Chicago Tribune, so he knew about it, but when he went to show his solidarity with the workforce, the first place he went was Caterpillar. I don't think he's forgotten, and the labor movement didn't react. Even radical labor historians didn't remember. It was only 15 years ago, after all, but that's a real triumph of propaganda in many ways.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.iww.org

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• The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his hand in skilled workers, machinery, a market, peace and order - a vast apparatus and a pervasive atmosphere, the joint creation of millions of men and scores of generations. Take away the whole social factor, and we have not Robinson Crusoe with his salvage from the wreck and his acquired knowledge, but the native savage living on roots, berries and vermin.

  Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

  Thinking, Men, Hands

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