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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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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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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 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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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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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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The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
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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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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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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.
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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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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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My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.
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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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All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
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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 have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
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