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More Quotes by Utah Phillips
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?
The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.
As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America...
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.
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
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.
Sing your song Dance your dance Tell your story I will Listen and remember
Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world
Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.
