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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
Studs Terkel
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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue - the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.
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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
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Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.
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Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
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More and more we are into communications and less and less into communication.
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Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
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I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
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I have a big mouth, and I never met a petition I didn't like, so of course in the McCarthy days I got in trouble.
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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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I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
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Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
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Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.
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I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
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Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.
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In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.
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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 doctors were of one mind: unless something was immediately done, I had maybe six months to live. A quintuple bypass was suggested. Quintuple! I was impressed, though somewhat disturbed because I was in the middle of work on a new book.
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Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.
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