"When you become part of something, in some……" — Studs Terkel
"When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important."
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65 Quotes by Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel has 65 quotes on this site.
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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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More Become Part Quotes
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In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another…
— Tony Campolo
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Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
— Albert Camus
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We have to stand up for these issues when it's tough, and that's what I've done. I did it when…
— Barack Obama
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What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and…
— Edith Schaeffer
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Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than…
— Hugh Prather
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Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization.…
— Rajneesh
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Our faith is well founded; but it is necessary that this faith become part of our lives. A great effort…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return. We know that, and we are used…
— Paulo Coelho
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Unfortunately for many Aboriginal people, of course, they've been in the situation of being herded on government reserves. Their own…
— Lowitja O'Donoghue
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With time, fashion has become part of my DNA.
— Roberto Cavalli
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What have I done? I've blundered my way through life. So I have my picture on the wall. The minute…
— William Shatner
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Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of…
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