If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside, or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do about 10 million little things? They break up two of them, and three more like them spring up!

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

I'd like to be remembered as the sower of seeds. That's the greatest parable in the bible as far as I'm concerned. Some seeds fall in the pathway, get stomped on and don't grow. Some fall on the stones and don't even sprout, but others fall on the ground and multiply a thousand fold.

The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

I fought for peace in the fifties.