John Lennon (1940 - 1980)
“Ask them to show you one revolution that turned out to be what it promised militantly … The thing is to protest — but protest nonviolently.
They’ve got all the weapons, they’ve got all the money and they know how to fight violence because they’ve been doing it for thousands of years — suppressing us. And the only thing they don’t know about is nonviolence and humor …
Do everything for peace.”
The irony of the song Imagine is that to achieve all the things imagined in its lyrics would require extreme amounts of violence, especially the part about no possessions. Of course, never in his life did John Lennon himself ever practice the philosophy of no possessions.
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