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Studs Terkel Quotes


Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better.
- Studs Terkel

How come you don’t work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.
- Studs Terkel

I never met a picket line I didn’t like.
- Studs Terkel

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’m called an oral historian, which is something of a joke. Oral history was here long before the pen, long before Gutenberg and the printing press. The difference is I have a tape recorder in my hand.
- Studs Terkel

Once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
- Studs Terkel

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer’s. A whole country has lost its memory.
- Studs Terkel

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.
- Studs Terkel

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