07-01-2011, 09:12 AM
I remember hearing the news of his death and how deeply it effected me. He and a few other anti-War singers were constantly on my record player [remember those?]. His songs were angry at the injustice, but so full of hope too....and if he did commit suicide, which I believed at hearing that he died, he had lost his hope - and it affected me deeply. There are many right wing manic depressives, but they don't seem to commit suicide as often......that is not a conspiracy, IMO, but because they find the quite horrible world we live in more welcoming and nurturing of their political pathology than do those of us depressed on the Left.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass