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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.
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I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.
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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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You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
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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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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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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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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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If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.
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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.
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