The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.
Action is the antidote to despair.
As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.
I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.
During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.
I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.
The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.
I've never been an optimist.
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
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