I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
AL LEWISUnderstood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn’t read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
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What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
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I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
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My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
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The ruling class is smarter than you, and they’re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain.
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Because if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
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I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.
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America gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
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The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
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I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there’s no audience. TV, there’s no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it’s a silent response.
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As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others ‘you failed,’ you didn’t fail.
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The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
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You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
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I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
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I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
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