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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. "
Pete Seeger
New
Three
America
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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. "
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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. "
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" I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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People
" 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. "
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American
Love
" Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live. "
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Way
Spirit
" 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. "
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I Can
Me
" It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with. "
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People
Talk
" When you're facing an opponent over a broad front, you don't aim for the opponent's strong points, important though they may be. Pick a little outpost that you can capture and win. And then you find another place that you can capture and win it, and then you move slowly toward the big places. "
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Important
Place
Strong
" I feel that my whole life is a contribution. "
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Life
Feel
Contribution
" Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions. "
Pete Seeger
I Believe
Answer
Believe
" 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. "
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Sing
Proud
Never
" If there's something wrong, speak up! "
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Wrong
Up
Something
" I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. "
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People
Small
Want
" I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart. "
Pete Seeger
Believe
Rich
Survive
" Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. "
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Speeches
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Planet
" 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. "
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Saying
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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. "
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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. "
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Myself
" 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. "
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" I fought for peace in the fifties. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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American
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