Home / Quotes / Quote by Pete Seeger

Quote by Pete Seeger

“[...] our technology and our economic system seem to produce the present bad situation: millions of people feel themselves poor and powerless; millions feel that music is something to be made only by experts.”

Book:Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: A Singer's Stories, Songs, Seeds, Robberies

Work

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: A Singer's Stories, Songs, Seeds, Robberies

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger was an American folk singer, musician, and social activist, renowned for his pivotal role in popularizing folk music in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. His music often addressed social justice and environmental concerns, and he was a leading figure in the American folk music revival. more

“A child who has slept all night in a stuffy, overcrowded room, and then breakfasts on a cup of weak tea and a piece of bread, can hardly be expected to show a sharp, sustained interest in the abstractions of arithmetic, and the unrelated niceties of correct spelling. Punishment (or the threat of it) for this lack of interest is unlikely to bring the best out of him.”

Education Poverty Hunger

Book:To Sir, With Love

Source: To Sir, With Love

“We “bowl alone,” as sociologist Robert Putnam has put it. Yet this fails to account for a monumental shift in whom we join and for what. We still join together, but now we join for services too expensive to purchase alone—child care, the schools our children attend, recreational facilities, and security...”

Poverty Inequality Common Good

Book:The Common Good

Source: The Common Good

“In some cases, ignorance is deadlier than poverty.”

Reading Poor Poverty Knowledge Ignorance Ignorant Read Bookworm Studying Deadly

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Right is on the side of the hungry.”