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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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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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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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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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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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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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All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
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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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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.
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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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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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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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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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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
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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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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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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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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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