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“Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.”

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Book:Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals
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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.”

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Author:Saul Alinsky
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“Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing.”

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Book:Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
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