Utah Phillips

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"The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses."

—Utah Phillips (1935-2008)

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"The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free."

—Utah Phillips (1935-2008)

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"Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free."

—Utah Phillips (1935-2008)

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"The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free."

—Utah Phillips (1935-2008)

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"Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions."

—Utah Phillips (1935-2008)

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"Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?"

—Utah Phillips (1935-2008)

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"I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time."

—Utah Phillips (1935-2008)

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“Sing your song

Dance your dance

Tell your story

I will Listen and remember”

—Utah Phillips (1935-2008)