"This country's leading hell-raiser.... has set down some of the rules of the game. No one has had more experience or has been more successful at it than Alinsky." –The Nation
"Alinsky's techniques and teachings influenced generations of community and labor organizers, including the church-based group hiring a young [Barack] Obama to work on Chicago's South Side in the 1980s.... Alinsky impressed a young [Hillary] Clinton, who was growing up in Park Ridge at the time Alinsky was the director of the Industrial Areas Foundation in Chicago." –
Chicago Sun-Times "Alinsky is that rarity in American life, a superlative organizer, strategist, and tactician who is also a social philosopher." –Charles E. Silberman
"He cannot be bought; he cannot be intimidated; and he breaks all the rules." –
The Economist (London)
"I consider him to be one of the few really great men of our century." –Jacques Maritain
