And not the one who has seen the angels and devils in the wonders and tribulations of life, whose heart and whose soul has no knowledge without understanding.
(Khalil Gibran)
committed addition to her music, Joan Baez, and sat down for an early political minorities around the world, for pacifism and against racial segregation in their homeland. It was strongly influenced by the African American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, whom she heard speak at a Quaker seminary as a student for the first time. Baez remained king until his murder connected and worked on numerous political campaigns with him. Her political involvement began in 1957 when they result from civil disobedience, refusing to leave the classroom during an air raid drill, since the exercise was pointless. Previously, she had calculated her father that the students could not possibly reach the shelters before, as suggested in the exercise, had reached missiles from the Soviet Union, the then City Palo Alto, California. The incident occurred at the "know-it" student was put up big in the local press and Baez brought the reputation of being a communist . Shortly after the family left the village.
In the early years her career, Joan Baez suffered from severe stage fright attacks, sometimes reinforced by agoraphobia. This she says in the documentary film by Mary Wharton. (WIKI)