One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.
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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 in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.
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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.
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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.
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Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
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I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.
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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 think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.
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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.
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