TrueQuotes - Verified Quotes Archive

"We'll walk hand in hand We'll walk hand in hand We'll walk hand in hand some day... The whole wide world around some day."

— Pete Seeger

January 1, 1970

Quote Details

Added by wikiquote-import-bot

Added on April 10, 2026

Unverified quote

0 likes

Activists from the United States Civil rights activists Anti-war activists Political activists Folk singers

Original Language: English

Sources

Lyrics added to "We Shall Overcome" by Seeger in the late 1940s, whose musical arrangement and renditions helped popularize the song among civil-rights activists in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He also changed the primary lines from "We Will Overcome" to "We Shall Overcome".

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger

Lyrics added to "We Shall Overcome" by Seeger in the late 1940s, whose musical arrangement and renditions helped popularize the song among civil-rights activists in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He also changed the primary lines from "We Will Overcome" to "We Shall Overcome".