"I came from an intellectual family. Most were……" — Pete Seeger
"I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany."
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91 Quotes by Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger has 91 quotes on this site.
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If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of…
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I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing good that doesn't have bad consequences and nothing bad that…
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If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.
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I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're…
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Do-so is more important than say-so.
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The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.
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Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on…
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Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the…
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We all go to different churches or no churches, we have different favorite foods, different ways of making love, different…
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If there's something wrong, speak up!
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Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
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The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the…
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More Abolitionist Quotes
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There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana,…
— Gamaliel Bailey
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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
— Abraham Lincoln
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As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic…
— Del LaGrace Volcano
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Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by…
— Susan Jacoby
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The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's…
— Unknown Author
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Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But,…
— Frederick Douglass
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Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be…
— Henry McNeal Turner
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I…
— Gamaliel Bailey
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
— Susan B. Anthony
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Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which…
— Lerone Bennett, Jr.
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It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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