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Food is one of the great organizing tools.

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Pete Seeger
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: May 3
Died: 2014
Died: January 27
Banjoist
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Musicologist
Peace Activist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Street Artist
New York City
New York
Peter Seeger
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I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no belly button. But I agree that God is something eternal. Something cannot come out of nothing. I believe God is Everything. And I believe in infinity.
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Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.
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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 13 years before they died on the same day. They asked, How can one have prosperity without commerce? How can one have commerce without luxury? How can one have luxury without corruption? How can you have corruption without the end of the Republic? And they really didn't know the answer.
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If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.
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Many Americans knew their lives and their souls were being struggled for, and they fought for it. And I felt I should carry on.
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My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.
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But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.
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At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that ties the whole thing together. Then take the risk and do it.
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Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.
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A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.
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