Great American Liberal - Studs Terkel dies at 96

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The Washington Post...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/31/AR2008103103741.html

The Chicago Tribune...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-1101edit1nov01,0,1764839.story?page=2

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QUOTES from Studs Terkel:

"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."


"We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world."


"I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing."


"Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt."


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


"That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting."


"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."


"We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'"


"I'm very excited by the idea of a black guy in the White House, that's very exciting... I just wish he was more progressive!"


"'Palin ... She's Joe McCarthy in Drag!'"