Studs Terkel Quotes
Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American author, historian and broadcaster.
(1912 - 2008)
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All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?
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But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
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I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
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I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
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I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
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I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you.
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I said, "Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?" I can't take back that I'm against the poll tax, that I'm against lynching, that I'm for peace.
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I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
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I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
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I want a language that speaks the truth.
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I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
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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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I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
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I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.
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I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.
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I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.'
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I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
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If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.
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Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.
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