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According to his friends, losing his professorship for his activism affected him profoundly.

Seeger told his dean that Germany and England were both imperialist powers, and as far as he was concerned, they could fight each other to a stalemate. Seeger lost his job when he opposed United States involvement in the First World War. He held left-wing views and was sympathetic to the International Workers of the World (IWW). His father, Charles Louis Seeger, was a musicologist who taught at Berkeley University.

If they had lost the War of Independence, they might have been hung." These ancestors of mine were all subversives in the eyes of the established government of the British colonies. His descendants that came my way were staunch upholders of independence among the colonists. One of them, Elder Brewster, was on the Mayflower with Governor Bradford, one of the leaders of the Plymouth Colony. He later wrote: "My ancestors came to this country because they didn't want to answer questions put to them by the then Un-English committees. Pete Seeger was born in New York City on 3rd May, 1919.