More From Studs Terkel
- "I’ve always felt, in all my books, that there’s a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence – providing they have the facts, providing they have the information."
- "People are ready to say, ‘Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.’ We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations."
- "If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have."
More In Hope
- "I’ve flown across America, I’ve scaled fences, I’ve stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I’m a hopeless romantic. There’s no hope for me."― Joel Madden
- "To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."― Erich Fromm
- "I think, my generation, it’s hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP."― Shia LaBeouf