"Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis."

-- Studs Terkel

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“You know, funny can be universal.”
“The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.”
“Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.”
“Everybody was telling me to sit my ***** down. Everybody was telling me to get a real job. Everybody was asking me, "What are you doing? You're ruining your life. You're embarrassing your family." That's all I got. So you can't listen to that. You have to listen to yourself.”
“I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.”
“Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness.”
“Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.”
“Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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