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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.
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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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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
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An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
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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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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 thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
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Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours.
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I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
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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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Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
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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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You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.
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Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.
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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
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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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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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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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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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