Mary Travers

Overview

Mary Travers born Louisville, KY November 9, 1936 (d. 2009). Antiwar singer; member of Peter, Paul & Mary; marched with Martin Luther King, Jr.; arrested in Apartheid protest with her mother and daughter, 1984.

Quotations

On US war in Central America:

Killed the people to set them free
Who put this price on their liberty
Don't you think it's time to leave
El Salvador?

(song, "El Salvador"; photo with Salvadorean refugee, jdshigherground)