Top 121 Organizer Quotes & Sayings

Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.

America needs a commander in chief, not a global community organizer.

I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

I think [ chief organizer of the Democratic Party ] it's something that I have an interest in.

I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

In 1981, I was a community organizer.

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a “dangerous enemy.

I'm an educator. I'm an organizer.

My day planner is a constant companion as my organizer. And shows me that I am, in fact, getting things done.

All my life, I've been lucky to work in social justice, starting as a labor organizer working with low-wage working women.

Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.

I'm the total organizer. Everything's got a system. It's in order.

I'm the ultimate organizer! My major at Stanford was "Organizational Behavior" so I love to multi-task and stay extra busy.

The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

I am the most optimistic organizer in this country.

A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire.

Hillary Clinton is someone who's never waited around for someone else to do the hard work. She's been an organizer and a change-maker for her whole life, practically.

The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer 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. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.

We cannot afford to have a president who thinks he's some sort of global community organizer standing over America on one side and our adversaries on the other. America must have a Commander in Chief. Not a global community organizer.

I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of social change. My role isn't to make choices for people-each individual or group needs to do that on their own. But as a writer and a speaker, you can describe possibilities that perhaps haven't been visible before, and aren't in other public dialogues or in the rest of the media. So I suppose I think of myself mainly as an organizer and as someone who describes possibilities.

The best advice I ever got as an organizer was that if you can organize your family, you're a good organizer.

The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.

Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate, i spent five and a half years as the solicitor-general of Texas, the chief lawyer for the state of Texas in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

A good organizer is key to anyone with a busy social life.

Democrats need an organizer who will energize the grass-roots across this country to build the party from the bottom up.

Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer.

An organizer is a leader who does not lead but gets behind the people and pushes.

I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a 'dangerous enemy.'

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.

The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

I'm not the geek in the family: I'm the organizer. But what I do know is that we have a very terrific team of consultants, former federal cybersecurity experts who are working with us to make sure we have a very safe system.

He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.

Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.

I think I'm a great organizer. Not that I'm organized, but I'm a great organizer of other people.

It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet.

Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

I'm a student at Harvard University, and currently work as the United States Youth Poet Laureate, a community organizer, and an activist.

As an activist, organizer, Palestinian, and a Muslim-American woman, I have faced many obstacles in the industry I work in. I often have to fight for my seat and representation for the communities I represent.

Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

I think one of the most important skills of a local organizer of a local economy is an ability to put on a terrific street party.

Barack Obama is a street corner community organizer who is using the office of the presidency here to virtually undermine it.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.

Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.

I call myself an addicted organizer.

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

I must consider the organizer as more important than the discoverer.

I'm a cleaner, a put-er away-er, an organizer of things.