“Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.”

—  Pete Seeger

"We Shall Overcome: An Hour With Legendary Folk Singer & Activist Pete Seeger" on Democracy Now (4 September 2006) http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/04/1416217&mode=thread&tid=25

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American folk singer 1919–2014

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