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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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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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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 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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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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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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