Quotes By Joan Baez

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

Action is the antidote to despair.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

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.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.