When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.More Joan Baez quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.More Joan Baez quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.More Joan Baez quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.More Joan Baez quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I was trying to disturb the war.More Joan Baez quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]