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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
Studs Terkel
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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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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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I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real
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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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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel
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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
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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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More and more we are into communications and less and less into communication.
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I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
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I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
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The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
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Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.
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When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important.
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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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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
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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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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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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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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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But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
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