Phil Ochs

Who’ll tell the bodies of children it’s not escalation?

#OnThisDay December 19, 1940: Phil Ochs birthday. Ochs was an American protest singer who was known for his sharp wit and humor, political lyrics and activism. #TdoayInHistory #StopTheWars #CivilRights

“It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life" - Phil Ochs

we’re so back

I want to be destroyed by art. I want to hear work that is so good poetically, so exciting musically, so original in arrangement and execution that it can turn me inside out with the communication of feeling.

Where were you in Chicago?

Interview in Dapper Magazine, circa 1967

1967

“Congressmen will gather in a circus of delay While the Constitution's drowning in an ocean of decay ‘Unwed mothers should be sterilized,’ I've even heard them say”