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Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis. — Studs Terkel

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication. — Studs Terkel

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to. — Studs Terkel

Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours. — Studs Terkel

The worst day-to-day operators of businesses are bankers. — Studs Terkel

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. — Studs Terkel

A man? If I need a man, wouldn't you think I'd have one of my own? Must I wait for you? — Studs Terkel

You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name. — Studs Terkel

The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong. — Studs Terkel

Curiosity never killed this cat' - that's what I'd like as my epitaph — Studs Terkel

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library. — Studs Terkel

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously. — Studs Terkel

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have. — Studs Terkel

What I remember most of those times is that poverty creates desperation, and desperation creates violence. — Studs Terkel

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us. — Studs Terkel

I want a language that speaks the truth. — Studs Terkel

The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody. — Studs Terkel

The Grand Illusion, one of the great war films of all time. — Studs Terkel

Because a book is a life, like one man is a life. — Studs Terkel

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits. — Studs Terkel

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist. — Studs Terkel

So, my credo consists of the pursuit and the act. One without the other is self-indulgence. — Studs Terkel

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored. — Studs Terkel

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too. — Studs Terkel

Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again. — Studs Terkel

The poor are so busy trying to survive from one day to the next, they haven't the time or energy to keep score. — Studs Terkel

Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality? — Studs Terkel

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it. — Studs Terkel

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count. — Studs Terkel

If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street. — Studs Terkel

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us. — Studs Terkel

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

I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real — Studs Terkel

I don't know if I'm partisan to the underdog or whether I'm the underdog. — Studs Terkel

I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me. — Studs Terkel

Hope never trickles down. It always springs up. — Studs Terkel

I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him. — Studs Terkel

I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated. — Studs Terkel

We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries! — Studs Terkel

Work is a search for daily meaning
as well as for daily bread. — Studs Terkel

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be. — Studs Terkel

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. — Studs Terkel

I have a big mouth, and I never met a petition I didn't like, so of course in the McCarthy days I got in trouble. — Studs Terkel

My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat. — Studs Terkel

An agnostic is a cowardly atheist. — Studs Terkel

So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense. — Studs Terkel

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing. — Studs Terkel

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful. — Studs Terkel

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt. — Studs Terkel

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory. — Studs Terkel

Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer. — Studs Terkel

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often. — Dave Eggers

Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding. — Studs Terkel