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There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
 Phil Ochs

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.
 Phil Ochs
The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.
 Phil Ochs
When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.
 Phil Ochs
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.
 Phil Ochs
It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.
 Phil Ochs