Pete Seeger quotes - page 2

There's no hope, but I may be wrong. (Pete Seeger)
We'll walk hand in hand We'll walk hand in hand We'll walk hand in hand some day... The whole wide world around some day.
Pete Seeger
If it can't be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.
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Well, normally I'm against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big.” - Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)
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The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.
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To everything (turn, turn, turn) There is a season (turn, turn, turn) And a time for every purpose under heaven.
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Where have all the soldiers gone? Gone to graveyards, everyone. Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn?
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A time to gain, a time to lose A time to rend, a time to sew A time of love, a time of hate A time of peace... I swear it's not too late.
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I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
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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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One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties. (Pete Seeger)
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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I fought for peace in the fifties.
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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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Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.
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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.
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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.
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Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.
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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.
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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 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. (Pete Seeger)
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.
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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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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.
Pete Seeger
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. I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
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