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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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Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.
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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.
Studs Terkel
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
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The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
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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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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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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
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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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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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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'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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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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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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All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.
Studs Terkel
People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.
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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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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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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.
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