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"The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. 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 can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class."
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"Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water."
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"I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany."
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"And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be."
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"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."
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"Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class."
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"I really wasn't a class clown."
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"If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination."
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"I walked out of class one day and I never went back."
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"The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized."
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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."
Kids

"I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself."
Love

"I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina."
Food

"Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!"
Poor

"I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours."
Right

"Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard."
Mother

"The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago."
Time

"I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win."
May

"What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center."
Life

"I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe."
Opportunity
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