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How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.
Studs Terkel
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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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Unless there's a grassroots movement of some sort, with TV and the media in general in the hands of fewer and fewer people - the Murdochians, you know - all we hear is the one point of view. There has to be something communal.
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I want a language that speaks the truth.
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I'm not a Luddite completely I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women smacking their laundry against a rock. When I hear about hardware, I think of pots and pans, and when I hear about software, I think of sheets and towels.
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I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
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I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
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There are nascent stirrings in the neighborhood and in the field, articulated by non-celebrated people who bespeak the dreams of their fellows. It may be catching. Unfortunately, it is not covered on the six o'clock news.
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All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?
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I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
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You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
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The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.
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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
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It is still the arena of those who dream of the City of Man and those who envision a City of Things. The battle appears to be forever joined. The armies, ignorant and enlightened, clash by day as well as night. Chicago is America's dream, writ large. And flamboyantly.
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The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
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We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.
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For the next century, we've got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. ... You've got to sound off.
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But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
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I find labels liberal and conservative of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.
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