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Nobody living can ever stop me
As I go walking my freedom highway
Nobody living can make me turn back
This land is made for you and me.

— Woody Guthrie

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Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.

Ever'body might be just one big soul,
Well it looks that a-way to me.

Tom Joad (1940)

I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose.

Statement quoted in Prophet Singer: The Voice And Vision of Woody Guthrie (2007)

We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.

I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

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