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

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.

Nothing lasts forever, even the hardships of life they too fade away with time, but what makes them hard is to have patience and not to loose hope

Dedicated selfless people shape the future

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying

Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

We have got to extend the hand of friendship, we have got to take the peacelines down brick by brick

He who breathes deepest lives most.

If Americans could choose, would they choose to work on the infrastructure for cancer-causing oil power or would they choose to work on the infrastructure for health-reviving wind power?

When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.