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.
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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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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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I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
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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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If anything I consider myself an anarchist.
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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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Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
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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 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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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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Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right?
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You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
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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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If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
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I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.
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