If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we’re going to have to start with children.

All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.

It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.

There has to be a certain amount of love just in order for you to survive together. I think a lot of groups have gone down the tubes because they were not able to relate to one another.

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

Looking out at this quarter of a million people,... I truly believed, at that moment, it was possible that human beings could join together to make a positive social change.

It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.

We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.

I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's apartment and there would be fifty people there, singing well into the night.

Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio is not the issue. Folk music is always there.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity

I'll only tell you what matters. And the truth is, everything matters. Nothing is an accident, really.

There are things better left unknown.matters better left untoldand things better left unsettled.

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!

For the people who believe, you don't have to explain, and for the people who don't believe, no explanation is good enough.

If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King.

The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was too hard for the digestion of the Cry.

I'm a very good dishwasher. I'm a terrible cook. I'm an awful cook.