"I thought, if ever there were a time……" — Studs Terkel

"I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now."

— Studs Terkel

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65 Quotes by Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel has 65 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and…
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…
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers…
I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me.…
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…
Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can…
Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of…

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