Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.

Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.