“I have on occasion remarked that I felt confident that I could persuade a millionaire on a Friday to subsidize a revolution for Saturday out of which he would make a huge profit on Sunday even though he was certain to be executed on Monday.”

—  Saul D. Alinsky

Source: Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971), P.150

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American community organizer and writer 1909–1972

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