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One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

— Phil Ochs Statement in Broadside magazine (1962)

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Good and Evil

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Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

God isn't dead — he's just missing in action.

The Broadside Tapes 1 (1960)

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.

The Broadside Tapes 1 (1960)

In every American community there are varying shades of political opinion.

Call it peace or call it treason,
Call it love or call it reason,
But I ain't marching anymore!

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)

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