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There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.

Joan Baez

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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
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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've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
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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 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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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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I was trying to disturb the war.
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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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I was writing Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is, but I think I was writing a song. It was literally interrupted by a phone call, and it just took another curve and it came out to be what it was.
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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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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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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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If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.
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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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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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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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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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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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