Utah Phillips Quotes

• You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they do to valuable natural resources?! Have you seen a strip mine? Have you seen a clear cut in the forest? Have you seen a polluted river? Don't ever let them call you a valuable natural resource! They're going to strip mine your soul. They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist, because the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked!

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  Inspirational, Nature, Cutting

  "The Past Didn't Go Anywhere". Album by Utah Phillips and Ani DiFranco, October 15, 1996.

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• La Tierra no está muriendo, la están matando. Y las personas que la están matando tienen nombres y direcciones.

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  Names, People, Dying

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• The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

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  Freedom, Eye, Giving

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• 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.

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  Country, Song, Brother

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

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• The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

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  Grados

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• 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

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  Song, Struggle, Bridges

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• Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

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  Teaching, Kids, Educator

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• 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."

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  Giving Up, Gun, Knives

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

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• The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent

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  Dissent, Can Do

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• 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?

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  Children, America, Done

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• Cuando iba al instituto -hasta ahí llegué- leyendo mi libro de texto de historia de Estados Unidos, bueno, me enteré de la historia de la clase dominante. Tengo la historia de los generales y los industriales y los presidentes que no fueron atrapados. ¿Y tú? Tengo toda la historia de la gente que poseía la riqueza del país, pero nada de la historia de la gente que la creó.

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  Country, Reading, School

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• I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.

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  World, Wasting My Time, Ifs

  "Utah Phillips". David Kupfer, The Progressive, September 2003.

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• But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!

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  Eight, Hands, Giving

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• As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America...

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  Memories, Ideas, America

  "The Long Memory". CD by Utah Phillips and Rosalie Sorrels, 1996.

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• Sing your song Dance your dance Tell your story I will Listen and remember

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  Song, Stories, Remember

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• Les garantizo que, si me eligen, ocuparé la Casa Blanca, pasaré el rato, jugaré al billar, me rascaré el culo y no haré nada... Es decir, si queréis hacer algo, no vengáis a mí para que lo haga por vosotros; tenéis que juntaros y pensar cómo hacerlo vosotros mismos. ¿Es un trato?

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  Guarantees That, Want Something, White

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• Mi pacifismo surgió cuando me alisté en el ejército y me enviaron a Corea. Allí había un pequeño orfanato de una sola habitación llamado Song-do. Había 180 bebés allí, y eran bebés de soldados. El gobierno estadounidense no lo reconocía, y el gobierno coreano no tenía nada que ver con ellos. Vivían con una bolsa de 100 libras de arroz al mes. Algunos de esos niños, cuando tenían edad suficiente, salían a lustrar zapatos. Se presentaban en la puerta de nuestro recinto para lustrar zapatos, y uno juraría que estaban buscando a sus padres.

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  Song, Baby, Father

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• They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist, because the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked!

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  Rivers, Path, Resistance

  "The Past Didn't Go Anywhere". Album by Utah Phillips and Ani DiFranco, October 15, 1996.

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• Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It's our common property. There is nobody's name on it. Nobody can make money on it. It's not copywritten.

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  School, Names, National Parks

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• Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

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  Poet, Best Performance, Performances

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• Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

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  Country, Song, Passion

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