“The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.”

—  Joe Strummer

My Dinner with Strummer (March 1999)
Variant: The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.

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British musician, singer, actor and songwriter 1952–2002

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