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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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Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by that, and of course by the way that he spoke, that made a huge dent in my belief system and my spirit.
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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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My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.
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Action is the antidote to despair.
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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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I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
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I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace I was trying to disturb the war.
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