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Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn’t read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

Al Lewis

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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Immigrant Life Mom Mother Motivated Peasant Women Work
America gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
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Country Deserve Get Keep Politics Struggle
I think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there.
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Building Empty House Live Need People Think
I know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did.
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Brag Contribute Did Have Know
The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
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Accept Ago Lng Long Struggle Time Victory
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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Audience Need Needs Radio Response Satisfaction Silent Television
I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.
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Done Entertainment Every Exist Include Medium Probably Single Some Work
I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
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Agriculture Country Down Food Organize Tobacco Union Worker
If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
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Call Squatter Street Thieve Want
Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I’d take them all to dinner. All runaways.
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Dinner Every Fifty Friday Kid Runway Sixty Sunset Take Use Wait
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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Best Fail Failing Gave Long Opinion Shot
I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
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Enjoy Kid Love
I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
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Carnival Circus Eighteen Medicine Own Radio Show Work Year
Understood 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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Graduate More Mother Read Sense Struggle Understand Write
You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
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Ahead Better Right Stage Think Your
Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
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Do Have Right

Understood 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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