Peter Yarrow reflects on the legacy of folk singer Pete Seeger

Peter Yarrow, a folk singer and political activist who famously covered Pete Seeger's "If I Had a Hammer" as a member of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, joined Antonio Mora on the Jan, 28, 2013 edition of Consider This. Yarrow reflected on the life and legacy of Seeger, who died on Monday at age 94. Yarrow told Mora about how he joined friends and family at Seeger's bedside in the hospital on the day before he died. Yarrow also brought his guitar on set and played excerpts from “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?” and “We Shall Not Be Moved.”

Here are highlights from the interview:

"Pete paved the way by using his music to create community and the kind of hard spirit that really became the soundtrack of activism in the 1960s and 70s. The spirit of it really, really was different from pop music. The people who sang this music were expected to be there and put their lives, their hearts, their time on the line for the things that they believed in. ... Mary [Travers], who passed away four years ago, Mary used to call us 'Seeger’s raiders.'" — Peter Yarrow

"What Pete has done is really, really create a huge body of work and a huge body of people [that] really see life in terms of what we can do to heal what's wrong and create wonderment where it's needed. And that's not just about political things, it's human. It's about love songs, it's about work songs, it's about all kinds of music that characterizes human activity." — Peter Yarrow