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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…
• 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.
• 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…
• 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,…
• I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
• I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.
• Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude…
• Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer…
• 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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