Joan Baez Quotes

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 left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.

I’ve never had a humble opinion in my life. If you’re going to have one, why bother to be humble about it?

You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.

Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever because we could not go backwards in time.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.

Action is the antidote to despair.