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Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword by James Carroll

Introduction by Lawrence Rosenwald

Iroquois Tradition

“The Tree of the Great Peace”

(from) The Journal of John Woolman

(from) A Plea for the Poor

“I Counted None My Enemy”

David Low Dodge

“An Odd and Singular Man”

A Plan of a Peace-Office for the United States

Joseph Smith Jr.

(from) The Book of Mormon

Ralph Waldo Emerson

William Lloyd Garrison

Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by the Peace Convention, Held in Boston, September 18, 19, & 20, 1838

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Arsenal at Springfield

The Term Non-Resistance

Theodore Parker

Speech Delivered at the Anti-War Meeting, in Faneuil Hall, February 4, 1847

(from) Speech of Mr. Corwin, of Ohio, on the Mexican War

Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience

Obadiah Ethelbert Baker

Nov. 30th To an absent Wife

(from) The Record of a Quaker Conscience: Cyrus Pringle’s Diary

Herman Melville

Timothy H. O’Sullivan and Alexander Gardner

A Harvest of Death

Julia Ward Howe

Appeal to Womanhood Throughout the World

Battle Hymn of the Republic (Brought Down to Date)

The Moral Equivalent of War

John F. Kendrick

Christians at War

(from) Preparedness, the Road to Universal Slaughter

Ellen N. La Motte

Randolph Bourne

The War and the Intellectuals

Below the Battle

Traditional (Gospel)

Down by the River-Side

Emily Greene Balch

To the President of Wellesley College

(from) Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism

Address to the Jury

An Experiment in Conscience

Walter Guest Kellogg

The Stierheim Case

Arturo Giovannitti

Scott Nearing Reprieves Democracy

“There Will Come Soft Rains”

Personal Reactions During War

Reinhold Niebuhr

1923: In Europe

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Dissent in United States v. Schwimmer

“i sing of Olaf glad and big”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Conscientious Objector

(from) Johnny Got His Gun

William Everson

(from) A Field of Broken Stones

Letter to President Roosevelt

To Local Board No. 63

A Petition to the President of the United States

We Go on Record—

Wailing Shall Be in All Streets

(from) One War Is Enough

Naomi Replansky

The Conscientious Objector

William Stafford

To Meet a Friend

Howard Schoenfeld

(from) The Danbury Story

General Advisory Committee to the U.S. Atomic
Energy Commission

Annexes to the General Advisory Committee Report of October 30, 1949

Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream

August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains

Omar N. Bradley

A Decent Respect for Human Intelligence

Albert S. Bigelow

Why I Am Sailing into the Pacific Bomb-Test Area

Jeannette Rankin

Two Votes Against War: 1917, 1941

(from) Zen Telegrams

Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

A Matter of Freedom

Southern Peace Walk: Two Issues or One

(from) The Strategy of Tax Refusal

David Dellinger

The Future of Nonviolence

Clinton Hopson and Joe Martin

The War on Vietnam

Country Joe McDonald

The I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag

Statement Made on 12/21/65 to the Federal Grand Jury

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Statement on American Policy in Vietnam

Tuli Kupferberg and Robert Bashlow

(from) 1001 Ways to Beat the Draft

Josephine Miles

Necessities (1)

Abraham Joshua Heschel

(from) The Moral Outrage of Vietnam

George Starbuck

Denise Levertov

Martin Luther King Jr.

Counting Small-Boned Bodies

The War Crimes Tribunal

A Young Pacifist

A Causerie at the Military-Industrial

(from) The Armies of the Night

Contributors to WIN Magazine

(from) Mobilization! Oct. 21

Dow Shalt Not Kill

When the War Is Over

Nonviolence Does Not—Cannot—Mean Passivity

(from) War and the Crisis of Language

What Would You Do If?

Muriel Rukeyser

Shirley Chisholm

“The Business of America Is War and It Is Time for a Change”

The Liberation of Our People

Daniel Berrigan

(from) The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

Henry Cosby, Joe Hinton, and Pam Sawyer

I Should Be Proud

(from) I Refuse

Statement of John Kerry, Vietnam Veterans Against the War

(from) Born on the Fourth of July

(from) Winners and Losers

Terminal Colloquy

Cop Tales: Devastation

Women’s Pentagon Action Unity Statement

“I Was Told It Was Necessary”

Yvonne Dilling and Mary Jo Bowman

Revolutionary Violence: A Dialogue

(from) Born Again Radical

Eugene J. McCarthy

The IRS’ Plan for the Hereafter

“One Race, the Human Race”

Thomas Banyacya

“Like the Elders Say”

Gene R. La Rocque

The Role of the Military in the Nuclear Age

(from) Pacifist: Or, My War and Louis Lepke

Calvin and Hobbes: “How Come We Play War and Not Peace?”

To: Internal Revenue Service

War Resisters’ Song

Yusef Komunyakaa

2527th Birthday of the Buddha

On the Rainy River

(from) An Atlas of the Difficult World

Gregory Nevala Calvert

(from) Democracy from the Heart

S. Brian Willson

Naomi Shihab Nye

The Bombing of Baghdad

Barbara Ehrenreich

Phyllis and Orlando Rodríguez

Not in Our Son’s Name

Speech on House Joint Resolution 64

Barbara Kingsolver

A Pure, High Note of Anguish

Weighing the Costs of Waging War in Iraq

Maxine Hong Kingston

(from) The Fifth Book of Peace

Jonathan Schell

(from) No More unto the Breach

America’s Image in the World

Zack de la Rocha

Minnie Bruce Pratt

Driving the Bus: After the Anti-War March

(from) Road from ar Ramadi

Andrew J. Bacevich

I Lost My Son to a War I Oppose. We Were Both Doing Our Duty

For the Fifty (Who Made PEACE with Their Bodies)

That Particular Village

Nicholson Baker

Why I’m a Pacifist: The Dangerous Myth of the Good War

Anne Montgomery

An Interview with Sister Anne Montgomery, RSCJ

(from) An Honorable Discharge

Jane Hirshfield

I Cast My Hook, I Decide to Make Peace

Sources and Acknowledgments