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“Against us is the law
With its immensity of strength and power
Against us is the law!
Police know how to make a man
A guilty or an innocent
Against us is the power of police!
The shameless lies that men have told
Will ever more be paid in gold
Against us is the power of the gold!
Against us is racial hatred
And the simple fact that we are poor

My father dear, I am a prisoner
Don't be ashamed to tell my crime
The crime of love and brotherhood
And only silence is shame”

Joan Baez

"The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Part Two"
Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)

Love , Men , Law , Silence

“All of us alive are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?”

Joan Baez

And A Voice to Sing With : A Memoir (2012), p. 322

“Some of us may offer a surprise
Recently have you looked in our eyes
Maybe we're your conscience in disguise”

Joan Baez

Children of the 80's (1980)

“Perhaps he's just a vehicle
To bear us to the hills of Truth
That's Truth spelled with a great big T
And peddled in the mystic's booth
There are oh so many miracles
That the western sky exposes
Why go looking for lilacs
When you're lying in a bed of roses?”

Joan Baez

Caruso
Gulf Winds (1976)

Truth , Lying