US folksinger, political activist.
She interested large, young audiences in folk music and political activism during the 1960s; founded Humanitas/ Int'l Human Rights Committee, 1979.
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.
Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
Action is the antidote to despair.
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.
I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one, why bother to be humble about it?
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Published Sources for Quotations Above:
F:
Daybreak," 1966.
R:
Daybreak," 1966.
A:
In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
N:
From an Internet collection of quotations.
K:
In "International Herald Tribune" (Paris), 2 Dec 1992.
