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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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In other words, it is what I do in the world that matters. When I traveled for three months in the Mideast, the places I wanted to go back to were Turkey and the Gaza Strip. It has to do with what Gandhi said: he found God in the eyes of the poor. Those are the places which were so moving that they were just unbearable.
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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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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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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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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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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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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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All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
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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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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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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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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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There's very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, When will I know when to stop singing? he said, Your voice will tell you. And it is very, very difficult to sing now.
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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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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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I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
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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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