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Utah Phillips

"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. That's why I sing these songs. That's why I tell these stories, dammit. No root, no fruit!"

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

Utah Phillips

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“Faith sees the opportunity; doubt sees the obstacles. What you see is what you get!”

Source : James MacDonald (2015). “Lord, Change My Attitude: Before It's Too Late”, p.157, Moody Publishers
“Peace be with you," I said, and as I turned to resume my journey with Coyote, I added under my breath, "and asskicking be with me.”
“It is not enough for us to say: "I love God," but I also have to love my neighbor. St. John says that you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love your neighbor. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbor whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live?”
“The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.”
“I saw the end of the general magazine business at the end of the '70s, and I knew I had to move into another profession when the advertising dollar moved from magazines to television. The magazine business as we knew it was over. We were no longer the educators of the world.”

Source : Interview with Suzanne Snider, believermag.com. May 2010.
“I love the '70s, I'm very into that right now. The long Chloe dresses, very Virgin Suicides.”
“To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.”
“Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.”

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