Quote by Studs Terkel
Thats why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us

Thats 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. Its like a tonic. – Studs Terkel

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If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have. – Studs Terkel

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Faith
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Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far. – Studs Terkel

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Privacy
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Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own. – Studs Terkel

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Jazz
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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. – Studs Terkel

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Health

The old problems – love, money, security, status, health, etc. – are still here to plague us or please us. – Shelley Berman

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Health

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, Whats she got to be depressed about? I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo. – Natalie Imbruglia

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Health

Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system. – Larry Elder

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Health

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. – Anita Brookner

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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances. – Orlando A. Battista

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I dont have anything to say about other peoples art and their work. – Dolly Parton

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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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