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Rebellion, revolution don't need dollars
They need this instead
Imagination, suffering, light and love
And care for every human being
You never steal, you never kill
You are a part of hope and life
The revolution goes from man to man
And heart to heart
And I sense when I look at the stars
That we are children of life
Death is small
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True he was a vocal miracle
But that's only secondary
It's the soul of the monarch butterfly
That I find a little bit scary
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Instead of getting hard on 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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Some of us may offer a surprise
Recently have you looked in our eyes
Maybe we're your conscience in disguise
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Now you're telling me
You're not nostalgic
Then give me another word for it
You who are so good with words
And at keeping things vague
Because I need some of that vagueness now
It's all come back too clearly
Yes I loved you dearly
And if you're offering me diamonds and rust
I've already paid
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Miracles bowl me over
And often will they do so
Now I think I was asleep till I heard
The voice of the great Caruso Bring infinity home
Let me embrace it one more time
Make it the lilies of the field
Or Caruso in his prime
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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.
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We both know what memories can bring
They bring diamonds and rust
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If it's natural to kill why do men have to go into training to learn how?
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My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.
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Blessed are the persecuted
And blessed are the pure in heart
Blessed are the merciful
And blessed are the ones who mourn
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The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.
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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.
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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.
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Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
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We are the warriors of the sun
The golden boys and the golden girls
For a better world
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Yes, your father and Bartolo
They have fallen
And yesterday they fought and fell
But in the quest for joy and freedom
And in the struggle of this life you'll find
That there is love and sometimes more
Yes, in the struggle you will find
That you can love and be loved also Forgive me all who are my friends
I am with you
I beg of you, do not cry
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Perhaps he's just a vehicle
To bear us to the hills of Truth
That's Truth spelled with a great big T
And peddled in the mystic's booth
There are oh so many miracles
That the western sky exposes
Why go looking for lilacs
When you're lying in a bed of roses?
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If we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
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Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever.
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We're the children of the 80's, haven't we grown
We're tender as a lotus and we're tougher than stone
And the age of our innocence is somewhere in the garden
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Against us is the law
With its immensity of strength and power
Against us is the law!
Police know how to make a man
A guilty or an innocent
Against us is the power of police!
The shameless lies that men have told
Will ever more be paid in gold
Against us is the power of the gold!
Against us is racial hatred
And the simple fact that we are poor My father dear, I am a prisoner
Don't be ashamed to tell my crime
The crime of love and brotherhood
And only silence is shame
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Joan Baez
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Born:
January 9, 1941
(age 82)
Bio:
Joan Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice. Baez has performed publicly for over 55 years, releasing over 30 albums.
Known for:
Best of Joan C. Baez (1977)
Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration (2016)
Come from the Shadows (1972)
Joan Baez (1960)
Joan Baez in Concert (1962)
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