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Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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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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We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.
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Nasty Man isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.
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Diamonds & Rust started off as another song. Then the words started to morph. When you write a song that deep, the words come from some place else. But when the songs stop coming, it would be so contrived to try and force it. Since then I've just been doing other people's music.
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The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
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My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.
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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.
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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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I was trying to disturb the war.
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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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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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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.
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I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.
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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.
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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.
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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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