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"if we could sing loud enough and strong enough and hopefully enough, it would make a difference"
ronnie gilbert (the weavers) in the documentary "wasn't that a time". ronnie died saturday.
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RONNIE GILBERT: We sang union songs. We sang songs of hope in that strange time at the end of World War II, when already the world was preparing for Cold War. We still had the feeling that if we could sing loud enough and strong enough and hopefully enough, it would make a difference.
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http://www.npr.org/2015/06/08/412805143/ronnie-gilbert-voice-of-folk-band-the-weavers-dies-at-88
