“Talking to a conservative is like talking to your refrigerator… You know, the light goes on, the light goes off; it's not going to do anything that isn't built into it… And I'm not going to talk to a conservative anymore than I talk to my damn refrigerator.”

Track 5: "Candidacy" The Past Didn't go Anywhere, Righteous Babe Records (1996)

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American labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller and poet 1935–2008

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