“Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?”

—  Phil Ochs

"Have you Heard? The War is Over!" The Village Voice (23 November 1967) [later published in Ochs' The War is Over (1968)]

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American protest singer and songwriter 1940–1976

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