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?
There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions. But there is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.
I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon with their past and see how they've done it: what worked, what didn't work, finding characters that would tell the story of how that process was done.
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.
It just doesn't make any sense for someone to say, 'Is there room for people who support the state of Israel and do not criticize it in the movement?' There can't be in feminism. You either stand up for the rights of all women, including Palestinians, or none. There's just no way around it.
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