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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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 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 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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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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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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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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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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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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All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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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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I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
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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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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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