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Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

Michael Franti

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Michael Franti
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: April 21
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I could be really sad and I start to cry I feel alive then. I could be at a concert and I throw my hands up in the air and I feel elation I feel alive then.
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I've never really been into flags of any kind, cause flags can bring people together, but they always bring people together against other people, and I don't really consider myself to be a patriot in the sense that I say, 'okay, this is my nation,' I consider myself to be a child of this whole planet.
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There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day.
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I think my soul is intact, but my methods of reaching people are completely different.
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We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.
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Power to the peaceful!
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When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.
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The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.
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