“If we survive this century it will only be because you and I refuse to become Nazis.”

— Joan Baez

Joan Baez, SF Chronicle, 16 January 1973, reprinted as the epigraph of the book Bohemia: the protoculture then and now by Richard Miller (Nelson-Hall, Chicago, 1977)

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