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Studs Terkel · Religion

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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.

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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.

Health

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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.

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

Beauty

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