Joan Baez Quotes

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• You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
• I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
• Action is the antidote to despair.
• If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
• The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
• If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the…
• I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
• Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
• My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
• As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
• As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.
• Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
• Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them…
• It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words…
• Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.
• I was writing "Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is,…
• Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our…
• I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.
• I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
• I was trying to disturb the war.

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