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As Alinsky told Harper’s in an interview that summer, echoing Ross’s thoughts, “The problem with those kids is that they always want the third act—the resolution, the big drama. They want to skip the first act, the second act, the tediousness, the listening. Actually, you do more organizing with your ears than with your tongue.”27
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Gabriel Thompson (America's Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century)