Community in action

"And this is my belief, too: that it's the community in action that accomplishes more than any individual does, no matter how strong he may be."

Louis "Studs" Terkel
May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008

[from NPR:]
"Born in 1912, Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian Studs Terkel moved to Chicago shortly before the Great Depression. Although trained as a lawyer, he worked as an actor, sportscaster, disc jockey, writer and interviewer. Terkel hosted a Chicago radio program for 45 years and has authored 12 oral histories about 20th-century America."

listen to a segment on NPR's "This I believe."

[Ed C. in Buffalo, New York notes on his Facebook status that he "is sad that Studs Terkel didn't hang around just a few more days to see his fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama elected President."]

[photo by Nubar Alexanian from NPR Web site.]