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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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There is chaos. There's bloodshed. There's carnage.
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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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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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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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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 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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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 think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.
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I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.
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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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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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I was trying to disturb the war.
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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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The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
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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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