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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.

Studs Terkel

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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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New York City
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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 want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
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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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An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
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More and more we are into communications and less and less into communication.
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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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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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Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.
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Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?
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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'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real
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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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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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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
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I want a language that speaks the truth.
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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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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
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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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