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" All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white? "
Woman
Job
Life
" But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count. "
Become
Active
You
" Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt. "
American
Most
City
" I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him. "
Love
Nobody
Always
" If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have. "
I Believe
Believe
People
" I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing. "
Same Thing
Same
Peace
" I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory. "
Lose
Hope
I Hope That
" 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.' "
Say
Think
World
" 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. "
Despair
Good
Hope
" I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now. "
Time
Now
Hope
" 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. "
People
American
Deep
" I want a language that speaks the truth. "
Speaks
Language
Want
" I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it. "
Grace
Want
You
" I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be. "
Opinion
Want
Talk
" I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored. "
Through
Years
Past
" Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace. "
People
Respect
Touch
" 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. "
Wealth
Health
Insurance
" Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too. "
Role
Book
Obviously
" Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor. "
You
Act
Democratic
" So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense. "
Hopeful
Feel
Ready
" That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting. "
Debate
Things
Missing
" 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. "
People
Health
Book
" We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world. "
World
People
Great
" We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.' "
Nice
Good
Hope
" When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important. "
Way
Become
Important
" Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes. "
Live
Born
Hopes
" With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven. "
Hope
People
Say
" You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist. "
You
Atheist
Happen
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