Wednesday August 16, 2023; 12:36 PM EDT
- "What would you say is the most important work we have to do right now?" the interviewer from The Sun asked Pete Seeger in 1981. Seeger replied:#
- It's working within one's home community. We know that the big job is to save the world, but where do you start? I'm convinced that if we are unable to work in our home communities, the job is not going to be done. The world is going to be saved by people who fight for their homes, whether they're fighting for the block where they live in the city or a stretch of mountain or river. But unless they can fight within their own communities, I think they're kidding themselves. The Bible says, 'How can you love God, whom you have not seen, if you don't love your neighbor, whom you have seen?' Similarly I would ask, "How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen? (Reprinted in the May 2014 issue of The Sun.)#