Bruce Duncan “Utah” Phillips was an American labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, and poet. He described the struggles of labor unions and the power of direct action, self-identifying as an anarchist. These inspirational Utah Phillips Quotes will change your life.
Best Utah Phillips Quotes
- “The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.” – Utah Phillips
- “The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.” – Utah Phillips
- “The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent” – Utah Phillips
- “Children, be worried when they call you America’s most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they’ve done to the other natural resources?” – Utah Phillips
- “Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.” – Utah Phillips
- “As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America…” – Utah Phillips
- “Sing your song Dance your dance Tell your story I will Listen and remember” – Utah Phillips
- “I’m here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.” – Utah Phillips
- “Laurie Lewis’ songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don’t hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she’s at the center of it.” – Utah Phillips
- “The state can’t give you freedom, and the state can’t take it away. You’re born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.” – Utah Phillips
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“Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.” – Utah Phillips
- “When I went to high school – that’s about as far as I got – reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I got the history of the ruling class. I got the history of the generals and the industrialists and the presidents that didn’t get caught. How ’bout you? I got all of the history of the people who owned the wealth of the country, but none of the history of the people that created it.” – Utah Phillips
- “But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!” – Utah Phillips
- “They’re going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist because the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked!” – Utah Phillips
- “Laurie Lewis’ songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don’t hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she’s at the center of it.” – Utah Phillips
