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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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Food
Great
Organizing

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Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
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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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In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.
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Song, songs kept them going and going They didn't realize the millions of seeds they were sowing. They were singing in marches, even singing in jail. Songs gave them the courage to believe they would not fail.
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I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.
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All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race because they can leap over barriers, religions, leap over barriers of race, politics.
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I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things.
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It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.
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