Daniel Hunter

“Campaigns don’t succeed by getting everyone to agree with us! In fact, in most successful campaigns, the active opposition don’t change their minds (despite our best efforts). Rather, support for their position is pulled away by shifting the passives and neutrals one step in our direction (for example, moving neutrals to passive allies). What a relief!”
― Daniel Hunter, Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide

“In Montgomery the original goals were very minor: respect on the buses, hiring black drivers for black routes, and a fixed dividing line between the black and white sections on the buses. There was nothing about the end of segregation.  It wasn’t until virulent opposition made the chances of such modest goals seem bleak that the movement decided to escalate. In a stroke of both desperation and strategic insight, they expanded their demands to include full integration on the buses. If they couldn’t get their compromise, they might as well fight for what they really wanted.”
― Daniel Hunter, Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide