We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

There is only one river. There is only one sea. And it flows through you, and it flows through me. There is only one people. We are one and the same. We are all one spirit. We are all one name.

To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we dont deal with the causes we will never be safe.

People may say 'What can I do? I'm only one person.' But we've proven that when we come together demonstrate, and speak our piece, there is no way the power structure can avoid being attentive.

* We have come this far always believing that justice would somehow prevail. This is the burden, this is the promise, and THIS is why we will not fail.

People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice. As in folk music, each person has a unique role to play.

The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.

A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.

The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.

The spirit of Woody Guthrie lives in the heart of Chris Chandler.

Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy.

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

Never before has the world been so desperately asking for answers to crucial questions, and never before has the world been so frantically committed to the idea that no answers are possible.

Love really inspires me.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

He's won't push me back on the night and he certainly wasn't going to push me back up there.

A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.

I'm definitely preoccupied by thinking I'm just a biological thing. I want to feel that there's more, but so often I'm reminded of how we're just like baboons, basically.