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The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.

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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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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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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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All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.
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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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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
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I want a language that speaks the truth.
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Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.
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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 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 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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I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
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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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Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
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Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
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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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Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.
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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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Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.
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