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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.
I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
I want a language that speaks the truth.
Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.
Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.
I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense.
Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.
Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.
Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread.
The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours.
You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.
'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.
Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.
If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.
Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.
I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.
More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.
Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.
All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.
We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!
To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?
I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.
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.
Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.
But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.
Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.
If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.
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.
I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.
