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2519 Activist Quotes

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Continually Darn Gear Must
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Cannot Having Itself Nature
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Acres Add Beauty Belongs
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
Interpret Life Rather Short
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Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

Do You Know Itself Know Life
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Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Between Difference DoYouKnow Education
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I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches, and I do this voluntarily.

Almost Am Catholic Churches
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I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.

American Country Dearly Greatly
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Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

America Ancestors Came Eighteen
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I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

After Believe Choosing Come
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Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.

Answer Believe Correct Historically
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Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

Aim Been Centuries Dissent
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One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.
About Back Country Did
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I fought for peace in the fifties.
Fifties Fought Peace
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I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.

Affairs Am Answer Any
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I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.

American Any Asked Compulsion
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I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

Contribution Feel IFeel Life
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But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

Decline Ever Listened Other
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I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

Am American Audience Color
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I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

Am Anybody IAm Never
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I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.

Compulsion Decline Discuss Else
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I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

Back Clock Conservative He
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I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other
Back Care Clock Each
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I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

Because Call Christianity Churches
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It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

Disagree Important ImportantThing Learn
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If there's something wrong, speak up!

Something Speak Up Wrong
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Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

Books Neither Planet Save
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Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.
Being Generous Live Spirit
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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Education Experience Fine FinePrint
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If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always get people to sing with me.

Always Audience Get Got
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If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.

Able Answer Away Blot
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I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.

Businessman Businessmen Came Doctor
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Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

Against Child Child Labor Crime
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My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
Academia Father Good His
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.

Age Am Children Committee
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I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.

Along Biggest Came Depression
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According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God.

According Atheist Because Definition
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

Between Break Cause Child
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I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

Cry Editorial Good GoodSong
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You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.

Been Big How Made
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

Child Closer Each Each Time
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I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.

Also Amount Big Country
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I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.

Advocating Been Child Children
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I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.

Batch Deadly Different DifferentKinds
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If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

Buying Child Conditions Equally
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I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.

Am Around Child Education
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I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

Child Go God I See
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The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

African American Around Bad
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

Development Economic Economic Growth Go
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.

Also Billion India Land
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