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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
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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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Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?
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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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On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know. On the expressways, middle management men pose without grace behind their wheels as they flee city and job.
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The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.
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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 was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.
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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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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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That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.
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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
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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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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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I want a language that speaks the truth.
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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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I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
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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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