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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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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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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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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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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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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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I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace I was trying to disturb the war.
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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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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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There's very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, When will I know when to stop singing? he said, Your voice will tell you. And it is very, very difficult to sing now.
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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
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