Love in organizations, then, is the most potent source of power we have available.

- Margaret J. Wheatley

You must have discipline to have fun.

- Julia Child

You have to do something political every single day. Politics at its core is really about organizing people to do something for a cause that is bigger than themselves. April 13, 2011, at Yale University

- Howard Dean

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

- Napoleon Hill

The people are craving for a better world. Let us mobilize them as co-workers for a better world.

- Robert Muller

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

- Saul Alinsky

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

- Orison Swett Marden

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

- John L. Lewis

Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.

- Eugene V. Debs

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.

- Frederick Douglass

The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity.

- Margaret J. Wheatley

Don't agonize. Organize.

- Florynce Kennedy

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

- Elie Wiesel