Saul Alinsky died on this day in 1972

"This, then, is the cause to which we here have bound ourselves.  It is the cause of making democracy a dynamic force -- of making it work -- of breaking the strangle-holds of undemocratic practices - of smashing the apathy which has pervaded much of our society -- of doing all this so that democracy may grow in every way -- and grow it must if it is to live."   Statement by Saul Alinsky to the IAF Board of Directors, May 8, 1942