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 is not the issue. Folk music is always there.

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 accomplice.

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.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.

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. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.

There has to be a certain amount of love just in order for you to survive together. I think a lot of groups have gone down the tubes because they were not able to relate to one another.

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

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

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

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 the right to breathe air that’s clean.

I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's apartment and there would be fifty people there, singing well into the night.

I held the Host with two fingers and thought: How small Jesus made Himself, in order to show us that He doesn't expect great things of us, but rather little things with great love.

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Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it.Getting to the top is the manna of life.AL/fd

And another thing - don't get too comfortable. Take chances. Don't be afraid to lay it on the line. Even if you're happy. Even if you think life is freaking perfect.

…to celebrate by making love the first snow of winter.

Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember.

Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way.