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I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace I was trying to disturb the war.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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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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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 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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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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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 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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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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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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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.
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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 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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I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
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During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.
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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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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.
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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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Action is the antidote to despair.
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