Saul Alinsky

Also known as Saul David Alinsky

American community organizer and writer (1909–1972)

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Works: 3

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John L. Lewis, An Unauthorized Biography
John L. Lewis an Unauthorized Buography
John L. Lewis

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Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1915-06-10
Active to: 2005-04-05

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding
· 2000 · cited 11,502x
The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,176x
Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,374x
UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection
· 2018 · cited 9,041x
A general method applicable to the search for similarities in the amino acid sequence of two proteins
· 1970 · cited 8,198x

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Quotes

“Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea.”
“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins—or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom—Lucifer.”
“Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear the most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.”
“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.”
“No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.”
“The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and freedom to subscribe to multiple loyalties in matters of religion, economics, and politics rather than to a total loyalty to the state. The spirit of democracy is the idea of importance and worth in the individual, and faith in the kind of world where the individual can achieve as much of his potential as possible.”