"No matter how bad the wicked world has hurt you, in the long run, there is something gained, and it is all for the best … The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine, a working machine, and any song that says, the pleasures I have seen in all of my trouble, are the things I never can get — don't worry — the human race will sing this way as long as there is a human to race. The human race is a pretty old place."
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Anti-fascistsPoets from the United StatesSinger-songwriters from the United StatesFolk singersViolinists from the United States
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"Notes about Music" (29 March 1946) also quoted in Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie (2004) by Ed Cray
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Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (14 July 1912 – 3 October 1967) was a prolific American folk musician, most famous for his song "This Land Is Your Land" (1940).
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