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I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
Actor
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Journalist
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New York City
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Louis Terkel
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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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Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.
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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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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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Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
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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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I find labels liberal and conservative of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.
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Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours.
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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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You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
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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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When I put the plate down, you don't hear a sound. When I pick up a glass, I want it to be just right. When someone says, How come you're just a waitress? I say, Don't you think you deserve being served by me?
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I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
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I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
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More and more we are into communications and less and less into communication.
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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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All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.
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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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