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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
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There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.
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I wasn't popular in school, I was Mexican, I was all these inappropriate things. I started playing the ukulele and taking it to school, and I realized people liked listening to it. I would play it to comfort myself at home, and I'd play rhythm and blues songs that had four chords. That's how it started.
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Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.
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If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.
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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.
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I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
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I was trying to disturb the war.
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