Folk icon Joan Baez has been fighting for humanity since the Civil Rights Movement — and she's still going strong. #WomensHistoryMonth
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00:00Courage isn't something for people, for whom it's easy to do brave things.
00:05It's for people for whom it's not easy to do brave things.
00:30We shall overcome some day.
00:53We shall overcome some day.
01:12My position is not to tell black people what to do.
01:15My position is, as a white person, to get off of their backs.
01:20I mean, to quit exploiting them.
01:22Joe, can you tell us about what you saw during your stay in Hanoi?
01:46The same thing that all of us saw, which is just a kind of hideousness
01:52that would take a while for me to absorb.
01:54And coming out of there, feelings mixed with relief at leaving
01:59and terrible guilt of being a part of what's landing on those people's heads over there.
02:06The problem, poor Louis, he is sociopathic, really.
02:16He is sick and the others with him are power hungry.
02:23Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe that we shall overcome some day.
02:53We shall overcome some day.
03:02I don't think any serious social change takes place without a willingness to take a risk.
03:09That's my little song about a man gone wrong.
03:22He's nasty from his head to his feet.