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More Quotes by Utah Phillips
As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America...
I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.
The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent
The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.
I said, "OK, Ammon [Hennacy], I will try that." He said, "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.
When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I got the history of the ruling class. I got the history of the generals and the industrialists and the presidents that didn't get caught. How 'bout you? I got all of the history of the people who owned the wealth of the country, but none of the history of the people that created it.
Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.
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?
Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.
