Quotes Studs Terkel

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World Wa...

But once you become active in something, something happens t...

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most...

I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares ...

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing....

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory....

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse i...

I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about h...

I want a language that speaks the truth....

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their di...

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those...

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do t...

I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic ...

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decen...

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficie...

Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the...

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer...

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previo...

So here we are. We have a choice to make....

So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense....

Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're sup...

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're mis...

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can i...

Then I had to go see the couple,' who are not members of his...

We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not ...