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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…
• When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
• Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a…
• Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.
• I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
• People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
• The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners…
• 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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