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I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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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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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 went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace I was trying to disturb the war.
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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've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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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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