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One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
Phil Ochs
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Phil Ochs
Age: 35 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 19
Died: 1976
Died: April 9
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El Paso
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Philip David Ochs
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Oh you tell me that there's danger to the land you call your own, And you watch them build the war machine right beside your home, And you tell me that you're ready to go marchin' to the war, I know you're set for fighting, but what are you fighting for?
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Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.
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I'm gonna give all I've got to giveCross my heart, and I hope to live.
Phil Ochs
In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.
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In every political community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects. Ten degrees to the left of center in good times. Ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally. Here, then, is a lesson in safe logic.
Phil Ochs
The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.
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It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.
Phil Ochs
Beneath the greatest love lies a hurricane of hate.
Phil Ochs
It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.
Phil Ochs
A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.
Phil Ochs
Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.
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Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore
Phil Ochs
It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.
Phil Ochs
Show me a country where the bombs had to fallShow me the ruins of buildings so tallAnd I'll show you a young landWith many reasons whyThere but for fortune, go you or IYou or I.
Phil Ochs
I like Hitler, jolly jolly Hitler.
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God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.
Phil Ochs
Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down.
Phil Ochs
Is there anybody here who thinks that following the orders takes away the blame Is there anybody here who wouldn't mind a murder by another name?
Phil Ochs
I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame.
Phil Ochs
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
Phil Ochs
