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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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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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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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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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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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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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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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All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?
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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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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-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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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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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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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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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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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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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 don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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