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I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real
Studs Terkel
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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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Louis Terkel
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The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
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I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.
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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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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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When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important.
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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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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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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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Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours.
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I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
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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 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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I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
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Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
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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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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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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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