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Studs Terkel has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is…
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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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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
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When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
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Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a…
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The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners…
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I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said,…
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I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
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I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.
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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…
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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…
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Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece…
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I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling…
— Hank Aaron
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I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.
— Charles Barkley
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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…
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Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how…
— Larry Doby
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In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black…
— Emanuel Celler
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I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can't have…
— Ashley Benson
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We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
— Aretha Franklin
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I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.
— Diego Maradona
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I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees…
— Salmon P. Chase
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Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security.…
— Henry Louis Gates
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I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.
— Heath Ledger
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You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.
— Keith Richards
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