Pete Seeger In Conversation & Song - 56:19
PRESENTE: In Conversation & Song with Pete Seeger
No, death cannot silence our beloved
Pete Seeger. His rhythms and tunes will find their way beyond time and
across borders to wherever people toil and yearn to build a way for
humankind against greed and hate. His songs will forever inspire a chorus
and when sung by enough people the choir can tear down walls, overthrow
tyrants and, break the chains of serfdom. Not overnight in a crescendo, but
little by little. Pete Seeger knew a song could not stop a bullet, could
not stop a truncheon, but he believed that from little things, big things
grow. He was a messenger of a power invisible and indivisible. As he once
wrote: ''Songs won't save the planet, but then neither will books or
speeches. Songs are sneaky things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate
in prisons.Penetrate hard shells.'' Pete Seeger never tired and indeed was
inspired and energized to make the world a better place through his music
and activism. His lifelong commitment to the cause of peace and to
addressing the plight of the downtrodden has been an inspiration to all
those who have championed society's victims and have done what they could to
combat injustice.
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