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“You’re walking down life’s road, society’s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can’t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.”
Civil rights pioneer, vocal inspiration. Everyone from Dylan to Baez to Joplin to Springsteen has been influenced by her. She had hoped to sing at Obama's inauguration. She was 77.
