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

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

I'm not a Luddite completely; I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women smacking their laundry against a rock. When I hear about hardware, I think of pots and pans, and when I hear about software, I think of sheets and towels.

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

When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.

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