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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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I didn't study anything really. I didn't learn out of the books because I couldn't read music very well, so it is what they say it is - you learn from other people. And my cohorts and I would sneak around the coffee shops and hear stuff we wanted to learn, and then you ask whoever was playing it to teach you.
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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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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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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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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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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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Action is the antidote to despair.
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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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My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.
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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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I was trying to disturb the war.
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I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.
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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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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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I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
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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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I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
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Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.
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