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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.

Joan Baez

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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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I didn't study anything really. I didn't learn out of the books because I couldn't read music very well, so it is what they say it is - you learn from other people. And my cohorts and I would sneak around the coffee shops and hear stuff we wanted to learn, and then you ask whoever was playing it to teach you.
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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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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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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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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 have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
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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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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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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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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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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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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 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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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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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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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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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 only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.
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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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