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"in and of themselves, organizations are very dangerous things. they are begun as the vehicle for social change, for the revolution. after a while, though, they unknowingly become mistaken for the revolution itself. organizations have to have offices, printing equipment, mailing lists, etc., and generally, it seems that the more the power structure moves against an organization, the more it becomes concerned with saving its offices, equipment, mailing lists, i.e. in preserving itself. its principle tasks become paying the office rent and phone bills and getting people out of jail. and the more it is attacked, the more it has only one issue to bring before people--defend the organization. when an organization's overwhelming concern becomes its own preservation, it is no longer waging a struggle. it has merely become an employer with so many on the payroll and bills to be paid. the organization begins to rule its members instead of the members using the organization as a means to an end." -julius lester, 1969