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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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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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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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I was addicted to rhythm 'n' blues pretty much directly into folk music. I had my little 45s of mostly black artists. That was as close as I got. I've never listened to heavy rock or stuff that jangles my nerves, because I'm already jangled.
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I am so disconnected from the world of rock 'n' roll. I was always peripheral, partly because of the drug culture. I was not involved in that.
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Action is the antidote to despair.
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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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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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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 easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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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 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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Diamonds & Rust started off as another song. Then the words started to morph. When you write a song that deep, the words come from some place else. But when the songs stop coming, it would be so contrived to try and force it. Since then I've just been doing other people's music.
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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'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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I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.
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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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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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