The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
Interpretation
The core principles of Joan Baez's beliefs have remained unchanged since childhood, emphasizing non-violence.
This quote reflects Joan Baez's steadfast commitment to non-violence as a fundamental belief, rooted in her early life. It suggests that some principles, like non-violence, are so integral to a person's identity that they endure through time, shaping their actions and perspective on the world.
In practice
During a speech advocating for peace, one might quote Baez to emphasize the importance of maintaining non-violent beliefs.
I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
To sing is to love and affirm, _x000D_ to fly and to soar, _x000D_ to coast into the hearts of the people _x000D_ who listen _x000D_ to tell them that life is to live, _x000D_ that love is there, _x000D_ that nothing is a promise, _x000D_ but that beauty exists, _x000D_ and must be hunted for and found.
My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?
For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.
What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis.
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.
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