Eugene Puryear quotes
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“I think, by and large, the way big social change happens is every individual person taking on whatever little piece they can take on.”
-- Eugene PuryearSource : Source: www.slate.com
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“Usually, being a volunteer organizer essentially means that I am part of a core base of individuals, that when we start a project - whether it be a big thing like the inauguration or whether it be something that's a longer-term, let's say, educational campaign about a foreign policy issue or a domestic issue - we sit together and we divvy up, and oftentimes it's relevant to different things we do.”
-- Eugene PuryearSource : Source: www.slate.com
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“I think what drives me is a sense of, well, who is going to do it if you don't do it? I think that one of the things that we've seen over time, especially with progressive social movements, is most of them - it's surprising to people - are sort of driven by that.”
-- Eugene PuryearSource : Source: www.slate.com
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“I got involved as an activist when I was in high school, around the Iraq war. That's how I got involved. It seemed like, OK, we're going to go to war. It doesn't seem like a good idea. Someone should do something. I'm looking around and, like, I am someone, and I might not be able to do everything, but I can do something.”
-- Eugene PuryearSource : Source: www.slate.com
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“An hour to one person might be way more than like a week to somebody else.”
-- Eugene PuryearSource : Source: www.slate.com
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“I think one of the great things that I have seen happen since the rise of the movement for black lives is the growth of more training and leadership spaces.”
-- Eugene Puryear
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Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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“I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.”
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“Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces”
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“I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed,”
Source : Song: Country Boy, Album: Town Line, 2011
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