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==Death and Legacy==

==Death and Legacy==

Alinsky died of a heart attack on June 12, 1972 in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.  He was 63 years old.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=fy11AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT121 Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice]</ref>  [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]] wrote of Alinsky on October 19th, 1966 in the Chicago Daily News:

Alinsky died of a heart attack on June 12, 1972 in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.  He was 63 years old.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=fy11AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT121 Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice]</ref>  [[Time Magazine]] wrote of Alinsky that "It is not too much to argue that American democracy is being altered by Alinsky's ideas."<ref>[http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,904228,00.html Essay: Radical Saul Alinsky: Prophet of Power to the People]</ref>  [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]] wrote of Alinsky on October 19th, 1966 in the Chicago Daily News:

<blockquote>For a fee ALINSKY contracts to come into your city and, so to speak, bust up the joint.  His purposes, needless to say, are like the [[Jacobins]] in France who sought to break up the power structure so as to release the energies and increase the opportunities of the lower class.  ALINSKY is twice formidable.  For one thing, he is very close to being an organizational genius.  For another he has a way of making practical idealists feel sort of foolish - by pushing aside their efforts to help the poor or the racial minorities as ventures in facility.<br />

<blockquote>For a fee ALINSKY contracts to come into your city and, so to speak, bust up the joint.  His purposes, needless to say, are like the [[Jacobins]] in France who sought to break up the power structure so as to release the energies and increase the opportunities of the lower class.  ALINSKY is twice formidable.  For one thing, he is very close to being an organizational genius.  For another he has a way of making practical idealists feel sort of foolish - by pushing aside their efforts to help the poor or the racial minorities as ventures in facility.<br />

ALINSKY cannot abide men of reason or conciliation.  He thrives on strife, the more the better, and especially relishes the opposition when it is tough.  Add to all this a penetrating sense of irony.  "An integrated neighborhood" he once observed, "is defined as the length of time between arrival of the first Negro and the departure of the last white."<ref name=buckley>[https://ia801708.us.archive.org/33/items/foia_Alinsky_Saul-HQ-2/Alinsky_Saul-HQ-2.pdf Report], United States Department of Justice - Federal Bureau of Investigation, pp. 41-42</ref></blockquote>

ALINSKY cannot abide men of reason or conciliation.  He thrives on strife, the more the better, and especially relishes the opposition when it is tough.  Add to all this a penetrating sense of irony.  "An integrated neighborhood" he once observed, "is defined as the length of time between arrival of the first Negro and the departure of the last white."<ref name=buckley>[https://ia801708.us.archive.org/33/items/foia_Alinsky_Saul-HQ-2/Alinsky_Saul-HQ-2.pdf Report], United States Department of Justice - Federal Bureau of Investigation, pp. 41-42</ref></blockquote>