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“The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.”

—Utah Phillips

“The Earth isn't dying, its being killed. And those killing it have names and addresses ”

—Utah Phillips 

“You were born a white man in mid-twentieth century industrial America. You came into the world armed to the teeth with an arsenal of weapons. The weapons of privilege, racial privilege, sexual privilege, economic privilege. You wanna be a pacifist, it's not just giving up guns and knives and clubs and fists and angry words, but giving up the weapons of privilege, and going into the world completely disarmed. Try that.”

—Ammon Hennacy, as recalled by Utah Phillips in a conversation about anarchism and pacifism

“Never wear a hat that has more character than you.”

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Utah Phillips

(thanks, Mike)

“Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world. ”

—Utah Phillips.
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