"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."
― Studs Terkel
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Intelligence
More From Studs Terkel
- "I’m not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, ‘Yes, we are part of a world.’"
- "That’s why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It’s like a tonic."
- "I think it’s realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: ‘I despair. The world’s no good.’ That’s a perverse idealist. It’s practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That’s very realistic."
More In Intelligence
- "For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."― Christopher Columbus
- "Even from a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous."― Nicole Kidman
- "Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments."― Randy Forbes