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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.
Studs Terkel
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Studs Terkel
Age: 96 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 16
Died: 2008
Died: October 31
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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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The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
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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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Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
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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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You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
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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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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
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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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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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