"Kids don't have a little brother working in……" — Utah Phillips
"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 big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that. That's why I sing these songs. That's why I tell these stories, dammit. No root, no fruit!"
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20 Quotes by Utah Phillips
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The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.
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Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.
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As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America….
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Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the…
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You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual…
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You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen…
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But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does…
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Cause the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes…
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The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.
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Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is…
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I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my…
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Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.
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