"I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little……" — Studs Terkel
"I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us."
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65 Quotes by Studs Terkel
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Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and…
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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…
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The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers…
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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.…
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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…
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Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can…
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Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of…
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