Utah Phillips Quotes

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• Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of…
• The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.
• Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.
• As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America….
• Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?
• You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want…
• You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they do to valuable…
• But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that…
• Cause the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked. Hmmmm.
• The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.
• Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at…
• I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a…
• Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.
• The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is…
• Sing your song Dance your dance Tell your story I will Listen and remember
• Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they…
• It is better to be likable than to be talented.
• What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
• When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman…
• I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we…

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