If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
AL LEWISIf you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
AL LEWISAs long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others ‘you failed,’ you didn’t fail.
AL LEWISMy secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
AL LEWISI was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
AL LEWISDo they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
AL LEWISThe ruling class is smarter than you, and they’re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain.
AL LEWISBecause if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
AL LEWISThe most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
AL LEWISI’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
AL LEWISEvery 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.
AL LEWISAmerica gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
AL LEWISI went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
AL LEWISWhat motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
AL LEWISThe struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
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.
AL LEWISIf anything I consider myself an anarchist.
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