One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.

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• Pete Seeger:

  I fought for peace in the fifties.

• Pete Seeger:

  I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs

• Pete Seeger:

  I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compu

• Pete Seeger:

  I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

• Pete Seeger:

  Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

• Pete Seeger:

  But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have

• Pete Seeger:

  I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing

• Pete Seeger:

  I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never

• Pete Seeger:

  I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else

• Pete Seeger:

  I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when t