We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers..

God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness..

There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill….

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins..

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war..

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job..

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both..

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one..

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow..

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come..

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small..

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up..

As long as we keep searching, the answers come..

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer..

To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of m….

I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far le….

Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expect….

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times..

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?.

To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and to soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen to tell them that life is to live, tha….

Action is the antidote to despair..