I got involved as an activist ...

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.
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 Eugene Puryear

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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.
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 Eugene Puryear
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.
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 Eugene Puryear