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"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."
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"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."
"I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then."
"I did honest television. Real, live, honest television. That's what I did best."
"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio."
"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."
"TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives it's like a marriage."
"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."
"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."
"Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back."
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"I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year."
"But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well."
"The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place."
"I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work."
"Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service."
"As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas."
"Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action."
"I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away."
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