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"Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties."
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"I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it."
"I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax."
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"I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life."
"I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known."
"Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business."
"But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them."
"I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other."
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