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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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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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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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How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.
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I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.
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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 thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
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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 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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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
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You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.
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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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Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?
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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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More and more we are into communications and less and less into communication.
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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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The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
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I suppose if I have an epitaph it would be: Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat. I don't see retiring in the sense that we view it - I don't see how I could. Dying at the microphone or at the typewriter would not be bad.
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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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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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