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===Family===

===Family===

While he was attending the University of Chicago, he met Helene Simon, his first wife.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kjLspnsZS4UC&pg=PA25 Encyclopedia of leadership: A-E, Volume 1]</ref>  They married in 1932, and remained married until her death in an accidental drowning in 1947.<ref>[http://infed.org/mobi/saul-alinsky-community-organizing-and-rules-for-radicals/ Saul Alinsky, community organizing and rules for radicals]</ref><ref>[http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1947/09/04/page/36/article/mrs-alinsky-drowns-after-saving-2-girls/ Mrs. Alinsky Drowns After Saving 2 Girls], [[Chicago Tribune]], Sept. 4th, 1947</ref><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/12/books/it-never-hurts-to-have-a-few-enemies.html?pagewanted=all  

While he was attending the University of Chicago, he met Helene Simon, his first wife.<ref name="books.google.com">[https://books.google.com/books?id=kjLspnsZS4UC&pg=PA25 Encyclopedia of leadership: A-E, Volume 1]</ref>  They married in 1932, and remained married until her death in an accidental drowning in 1947.<ref>[http://infed.org/mobi/saul-alinsky-community-organizing-and-rules-for-radicals/ Saul Alinsky, community organizing and rules for radicals]</ref><ref>[http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1947/09/04/page/36/article/mrs-alinsky-drowns-after-saving-2-girls/ Mrs. Alinsky Drowns After Saving 2 Girls], [[Chicago Tribune]], Sept. 4th, 1947</ref><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/12/books/it-never-hurts-to-have-a-few-enemies.html?pagewanted=all IT NEVER HURTS TO HAVE A FEW ENEMIES], [[The New York Times]]</ref>  They had two children, Kathryn and David.<ref name=reformers>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1QMaAAAAYAAJ American Reformers: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary], p.</ref>  In 1952, he married Jean Graham.  After his divorce from Graham in 1969,<ref name=reformers /> he married Irene McInnis in 1971.

IT NEVER HURTS TO HAVE A FEW ENEMIES], [[The New York Times]]</ref>  They had two children, Kathryn and David.<ref name=reformers>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1QMaAAAAYAAJ American Reformers: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary], p.</ref>  In 1952, he married Jean Graham.  After his divorce from Graham in 1969,<ref name=reformers /> he married Irene McInnis in 1971.

===Influence of University of Chicago===

===Influence of University of Chicago===

Alinsky attended the University of Chicago from 1926 to 1932.<ref>[http://www.philosophy.uncc.edu/mleldrid/SAAP/MSU/P04.html Community Organizing:  Addams and Alinsky]</ref>  In his junior year he enrolled in a course on social pathology.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kjLspnsZS4UC&pg=PA25 Encyclopedia of leadership: A-E, Volume 1]</ref>

Alinsky attended the University of Chicago from 1926 to 1932.<ref>[http://www.philosophy.uncc.edu/mleldrid/SAAP/MSU/P04.html Community Organizing:  Addams and Alinsky]</ref>  In his junior year he enrolled in a course on social pathology.<ref name="books.google.com"/>

During that time, he was heavily influenced by sociologists from the Chicago School of Sociology.<ref name=chicagoschool>[http://fib.unair.ac.id/jdownloads/Materi%20Kuliah/Sastra%20Inggris/Dra.%20Nur%20Wulan/the_chicago_school.pdf Saul D. Alinsky and the Chicago School]</ref>  As a student, the two professors who had a most profound impact on him were Ernest Watson Burgess and Robert Ezra Park.  Park in particular would become Alinsky's favorite professor.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_i-7AAAAIAAJ&dq=favorite+professor&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=favorite+professor The Radical Vision of Saul Alinsky]</ref>  Later as a graduate student, he would be influenced by the work of another University of Chicago sociologist, Clifford Shaw.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HdrHAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA94 Collective Action for Social Change: An Introduction to Community Organizing]</ref>

During that time, he was heavily influenced by sociologists from the Chicago School of Sociology.<ref name=chicagoschool>[http://fib.unair.ac.id/jdownloads/Materi%20Kuliah/Sastra%20Inggris/Dra.%20Nur%20Wulan/the_chicago_school.pdf Saul D. Alinsky and the Chicago School]</ref>  As a student, the two professors who had a most profound impact on him were Ernest Watson Burgess and Robert Ezra Park.  Park in particular would become Alinsky's favorite professor.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_i-7AAAAIAAJ&dq=favorite+professor&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=favorite+professor The Radical Vision of Saul Alinsky]</ref>  Later as a graduate student, he would be influenced by the work of another University of Chicago sociologist, Clifford Shaw.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HdrHAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA94 Collective Action for Social Change: An Introduction to Community Organizing]</ref>

* "When those prominent in the status quo turn and label you an "agitator" they are completely correct, for that is, in one word, your function - to agitate to the point of conflict."<ref>Rules for Radicals, page 117</ref>

* "When those prominent in the status quo turn and label you an "agitator" they are completely correct, for that is, in one word, your function - to agitate to the point of conflict."<ref>Rules for Radicals, page 117</ref>

* "The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself."<ref>Rules for Radicals, Prologue, page xxiv</ref>

* "The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself."<ref name="Rules for Radicals">Rules for Radicals, Prologue, page xxiv</ref>

* "The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act."<ref>Rules for Radicals, page 116-117</ref>

* "The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act."<ref>Rules for Radicals, page 116-117</ref>

* "Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict."<ref>Rules for Radicals, page 21</ref>

* "Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict."<ref>Rules for Radicals, page 21</ref>

* "The answer I gave the young radicals seemed to me the only realistic one"Do one of three things.  One, go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves.  Two, go psycho and start bombing - but this will only swing people to the right.  Three, learn a lesson.  Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, ''you be the delegates''.""<ref>Rules for Radicals, Prologue, page xxiv</ref>

* "The answer I gave the young radicals seemed to me the only realistic one"Do one of three things.  One, go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves.  Two, go psycho and start bombing - but this will only swing people to the right.  Three, learn a lesson.  Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, ''you be the delegates''.""<ref name="Rules for Radicals"/>

* "Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough."

* "Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough."