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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 84
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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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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 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 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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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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Action is the antidote to despair.
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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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I was trying to disturb the war.
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Nasty Man isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.
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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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