Michael Derecault

“In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.”
― Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

“People don't have ideas. Ideas have people.”
― Carl Jung

“The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

“History is seasonal, and winter is coming.”
― William Strauss, The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny