But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.

Folk music isn’t owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It’s our common property. There is nobody’s name on it. Nobody can make money on it. It’s not copywritten.

The state can’t give you freedom, and the state can’t take it away. You’re born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...

Children, be worried when they call you America’s most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they’ve done to the other natural resources?

I’m here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.

Sing your song Dance your dance Tell your story I will Listen and remember.

You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want to be a pacifist, you're not just going to have to give up guns, knives, clubs, hard, angry words, you are going to have lay down the weapons of privilege and go into the world completely disarmed.

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

Sing your song Dance your dance Tell your story I will Listen and remember

Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?