I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
AL LEWISI’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
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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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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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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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I’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
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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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America gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
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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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The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
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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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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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The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
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I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.
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I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
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