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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?
Studs Terkel
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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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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.
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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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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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The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
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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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I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
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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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I call myself a radical conservative. What's that? Well, let's analyze it. Go to the dictionary. Radical: One who gets to the roots of things. And I'm a conservative because I want to conserve the green of the grass, the potability of drinking water, the first amendment of the Constitution and whatever sanity we have left.
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
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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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You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
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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'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
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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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More and more we are into communications and less and less into communication.
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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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