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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

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
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
Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
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Do Have Right
My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
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Congratulations Hell Mean Secret Success
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
If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
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Call Squatter Street Thieve Want
Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right?
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Both Bridge Equal Oscar Poor Rich Right Sleep Under
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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Class Creative Forget Lesson Long More Rule Smarter Strong
But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That’s the uniqueness of all of us. That’s it.
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Absolute Do Get Love Something Uniqueness Way
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
America gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
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Country Deserve Get Keep Politics Struggle
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 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
I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
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Enjoy Kid Love
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

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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