Studs Terkel

I hope for peace and sanity – it’s the same thing…

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work…

People are ready to say, ‘Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.’ We…

That’s why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with…

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, ‘Studs, you’re an…

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too…

I think it’s realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say…

We use the word ‘hope’ perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary…

Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I…

I’m not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People…

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in…

I’ve always felt, in all my books, that there’s a deep decency in the American…