First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
I often tell people I don't care whether they join the NAACP or some other group, but you better join something.
When at the CIA, I was fond of saying that many jihadis join the movement for the same reasons that young Americans join the Crips and the Bloods: youthful alienation, the need to belong to something greater than self, the search for meaningful identity. But it also matters what gang you join.
I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.
Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
I don't think about it. I have always been linked up with everybody.
Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it's just - you want to be in a group. You want to be around people, you want to be with people.
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.