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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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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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I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
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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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The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
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I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
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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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More and more we are into communications and less and less into communication.
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Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours.
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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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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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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
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Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.
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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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Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.
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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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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
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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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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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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
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Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.
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