I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
AL LEWISBecause if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
More Al Lewis Quotes
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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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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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If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
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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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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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I think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there.
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The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
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I’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
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I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.
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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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Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right?
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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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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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My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
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