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“It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.” quote by Mary Travers — Download Open image

“It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.”

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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.

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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.…

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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…

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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.…

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When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

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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…

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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 years can a people exist, before they're allowed to be free?' in a prison yard for political prisoners in El Salvador; if you have sung it to a group of union organizers, who have all been…

Looking out at this quarter of a million people,... I truly believed, at that moment, it was possible that human beings could join together…

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Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

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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…

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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…

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There has to be a certain amount of love just in order for you to survive together. I think a lot of groups have…

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