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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.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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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.
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You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
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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 was trying to disturb the war.
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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 have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
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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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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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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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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 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 we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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Action is the antidote to despair.
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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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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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