"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars." ― Charles Kuralt Topic(s): Society More From Charles Kuralt "I don’t have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong." "I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don’t think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time." "Since my retirement, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can’t afford an uneducated underclass of citizens." More In Society "I can’t say that I’ve changed anybody’s life, ever, and that’s the real work of the world, if you want a better society."― Charles Kuralt "The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."― John Updike "Well of course there’s been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don’t have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer."― Angela Davis