Joan Baez

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.

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

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.

Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.