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Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.


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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.

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.



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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel



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

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



Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.



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

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



We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.



Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.

Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.



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.

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.



More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.



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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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He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.



Don't you enjoy being alive? Don't you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I'm real, I'm solid, I'm alive! Don't you like this?

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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.



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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.



My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.



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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.



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Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.



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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.




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