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I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
Studs Terkel
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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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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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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
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I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
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An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
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Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.
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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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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel
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Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
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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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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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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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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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I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
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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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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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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
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Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.
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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
Studs Terkel
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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