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The twelfth rule: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

— Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971)

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The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

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Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea.

The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.

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The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.

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Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.

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