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America gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.

Al Lewis

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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Around Have Been Long Strong
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 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
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.
AL LEWIS

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
I’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
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Body Important Know Mention More
Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right?
AL LEWIS

Both Bridge Equal Oscar Poor Rich Right Sleep Under
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
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
If anything I consider myself an anarchist.
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Anarchist Anything Consider Myself
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.
AL LEWIS

Absolute Do Get Love Something Uniqueness Way
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
If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
AL LEWIS

Call Squatter Street Thieve Want
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
The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world – right after the Civil War.
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Capital Certain Civil Country History Junky Most Period Right War World

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