Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself. — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we’re going to have to start with children. — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community and I use the word very loosely. It's a big community.… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
We’ve learned that it will take more than one generation to bring about change. The fight for civil rights has developed into a broader… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today.… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers. — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line, 'How many… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
Looking out at this quarter of a million people,... I truly believed, at that moment, it was possible that human beings could join together… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
