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John Woolman, from The Journal of John Woolman; from “A Plea for the Poor”: The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman, ed. Phillips P. Moulton (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971), 75–77, 83–86; 254–55. Reprinted by permission of Friends United Press.
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Benjamin Rush, A Plan of a Peace-Office for the United States: Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (Philadelphia: Thomas & Samuel F. Bradford, 1798), 183–88.
Joseph Smith Jr., from The Book of Mormon (Alma, Chapter 24): The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text, ed. Royal Skousen (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), 365–69. Reprinted by permission of Yale University Press.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from “War”: Miscellanies (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1884), 187–201.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Arsenal at Springfield: The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems (Cambridge, MA: John Owen, 1846), 23–26.
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Obadiah Ethelbert Baker, Nov. 30th To an absent Wife: “Words for the Hour”: A New Anthology of American Civil War Poetry, ed. Faith Barrett & Christanne Miller (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005), 365. Reprinted by permission of The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Cyrus Pringle, from The Record of a Quaker Conscience: Cyrus Pringle’s Diary: The Record of a Quaker Conscience: Cyrus Pringle’s Diary (New York: Macmillan, 1918), 72–79.
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Walt Whitman, Reconciliation: Leaves of Grass (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891), 250–51.
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Stephen Crane, War Is Kind: War Is Kind (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1899), 9–10.
Mark Twain, Battle Hymn of the Republic (Brought Down to Date): Mark Twain’s Civil War, ed. David Rachels (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007), 214. Reprinted by permission of the Mark Twain Foundation. The War Prayer: The Complete Works of Mark Twain. Volume 20: Europe and Elsewhere (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923), 394–98. Reprinted by permission of the Mark Twain Foundation.
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Emma Goldman, from “Preparedness, the Road to Universal Slaughter”: Mother Earth 10.10 (December 1915): 331–35.
Ellen N. La Motte, Heroes: The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1916), 3–13.
Randolph Bourne, The War and the Intellectuals: The Seven Arts 2 (June 1917): 133–46. Below the Battle: The Seven Arts 2 (July 1917): 270–77.
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Eugene Debs, Address to the Jury: David Karsner, Debs: His Authorized Life and Letters (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1919), 23–44.
M. C. Otto, An Experiment in Conscience: Socialist Review 8.1 (December 1919): 50–55.
Walter Guest Kellogg, The Stierheim Case: The Conscientious Objector (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1919), 108–10.
Arturo Giovannitti, Scott Nearing Reprieves Democracy: The Liberator 2.4 (April 1919): 5–7.
Sara Teasdale, “There Will Come Soft Rains”: Flame and Shadow (New York: Macmillan, 1920), 89–90.
Jane Addams, Personal Reactions During War: Peace and Bread in Time of War (New York: Macmillan, 1922), 132–51.
Reinhold Niebuhr, 1923: In Europe: Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic (Chicago & New York: Willett, Clark & Colby, 1929), 46–48. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Reinhold Niebuhr.
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E. E. Cummings, “i sing of Olaf glad and big”: Complete Poems: 1904–1962, ed. George James Firmage (New York: Liveright, 1991), 340. Copyright © 1931, 1959, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1979 by George James Firmage. Reprinted by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Floyd Dell, On Trial: Homecoming: An Autobiography (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933), 313–19. Copyright © 1933, 1961 by Floyd Dell. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC. All rights reserved.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Conscientious Objector: Wine from These Grapes (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934), 47–48. Copyright © 1934, 1962 by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis. Reprinted by permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Holly Peppe, Literary Executor, The Millay Society, www.millay.org.
Dalton Trumbo, from Johnny Got His Gun: Johnny Got His Gun (New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1939), 142–55. Copyright © 1939, 1959, 1991 by Dalton Trumbo. Reprinted by permission of Kensington Publishing. All rights reserved.
William Everson, War Elegy X: Ten War Elegies (Camp Angel, Waldport, OR: Untide Press, 1943), n.p. Copyright © 1943 by William Everson. Reprinted by permission of Jude Everson.
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Robert Lowell, Letter to President Roosevelt: The Collected Prose, ed. Robert Giroux (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987), 367–70. Copyright © 1987 by Caroline Lowell, Harriet Lowell, and Sheridan Lowell. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
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Dorothy Day, We Go on Record—: The Catholic Worker 12.7 (September 1945): 1.
Kurt Vonnegut, Wailing Shall Be in All Streets: Armageddon in Retrospect, and Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2008), 33–45. Originally written c. 1945–47. Copyright © 2008 by the Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Trust. Reprinted by permission of G. P. Putnam’s Sons, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
Edgar L. Jones, from “One War Is Enough”: The Atlantic Monthly 177.2 (February 1946): 48–50. Copyright © 1946 by Edgar L. Jones. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Edgar L. Jones.
Naomi Replansky, Epitaph: 1945: Collected Poems (Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, 2012), 19. Copyright © 2012 by Naomi Replansky. Reprinted by permission of David R. Godine, Inc.
Karl Shapiro, The Conscientious Objector: The Trial of a Poet, and Other Poems (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947), 30–31. Copyright © 1946, 1973 by Karl Shapiro. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates, Inc.
William Stafford, To Meet a Friend: Down in My Heart (Elgin, IL: Brethren Publishing House, 1947), 85–94. Copyright © 1985. Reprinted by permission of Oregon State University Press.
Howard Schoenfeld, from “The Danbury Story”: Prison Etiquette: The Convict’s Compendium of Useful Information (Bearsville, NY: Retort Press, 1950), 24–26.
General Advisory Committee to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Annexes to the General Advisory Committee Report of October 30, 1949: Herbert F. York, The Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Superbomb (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1976), 156–59.
Ed McCurdy, Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream: Sing Out!, July 1951. Copyright © 1950, renewed 1951, 1955 by Folkways Music Publishers, Inc., New York, NY. International copyright secured. All rights reserved including public performance for profit. Reprinted by permission.
Ray Bradbury, August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains: The Martian Chronicles (New York: Doubleday, 1950), 205–11. Copyright © 1950 by Crowell Collier Publishing Company, renewed 1977 by Ray Bradbury. Reprinted by permission of Don Congdon Associates, Inc.
Omar N. Bradley, A Decent Respect for Human Intelligence: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 14.2 (February 1958): 66. Reprinted by permission of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Chicago, IL.
Albert S. Bigelow, Why I Am Sailing into the Pacific Bomb-Test Area: Liberation 2.11 (February 1958): 4–6. Reprinted by permission of the Albert S. Bigelow Papers, Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Jeannette Rankin, Two Votes Against War: 1917, 1941: Liberation 3.1 (March 1958): 4–7.
Paul Reps, from Zen Telegrams: Zen Telegrams: 81 Picture Poems (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1959), 54. Reprinted by permission of Tuttle Publishing.
Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson, Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: Folkways Records FTS–31026 (1968). Copyright © Figs. D Music (BMI) on behalf of itself and Sanga Music, Inc. (BMI) c/o The Bicycle Music Company. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Juanita Nelson, A Matter of Freedom: Liberation 5.5 (September 1960): 12–16. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Juanita Nelson.
Barbara Deming, Southern Peace Walk: Two Issues or One?: Liberation 7.4 (July–August 1962): 5–10. Reprinted by permission of the Barbara Deming Literary Estate.
Edmund Wilson, from “The Strategy of Tax Refusal”: The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1963), 115–18. Copyright © 1963 by Edmund Wilson, renewed 1991 by Helen Miranda Wilson. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
David Dellinger, The Future of Nonviolence: Revolutionary Nonviolence (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970), 293–301. Copyright © 1970 by David Dellinger. Reprinted by permission of the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.
Clinton Hopkinson and Joe Martin, The War on Vietnam: “McComb Soldier’s Death in Vietnam Sparks Protest,” Newsletter (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party), July 28, 1965.
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Tuli Kupferberg and Robert Bashlow, from 1001 Ways To Beat the Draft: 1001 Ways To Beat the Draft (New York: Oliver Layton Press, 1966), 3–8. Copyright © 1966 by Oliver Layton Press, copyright © 1967 by Grove Press. Reprinted by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited.
Josephine Miles, Necessities (1): Civil Poems (n.p.: Oyez, 1966), [9]. Copyright © 1966 by Josephine Miles. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Josephine Miles.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, from “The Moral Outrage of Vietnam”: Vietnam: Crisis of Conscience, Robert McAfee Brown, Abraham J. Heschel, & Michael Novak, eds. (New York: Association Press, Behrman House, & Herder and Herder, 1967), 48–52, 59–61. Copyright © 1976 by Abraham Joshua Heschel. Reprinted by permission of Susannah Heschel, Executor.
George Starbuck, Of Late: Poetry 109.1 (October 1966): 39. Copyright © 1966 by George Starbuck. Reprinted by permission of The University of Alabama Press.
Denise Levertov, Life at War: The Sorrow Dance (New York: New Directions, 1967), 79–80. Copyright © 1967 by Denise Levertov. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.; reprinted in the United Kingdom by permission of Bloodaxe Books, www.bloodaxebooks.com. Making Peace: Breathing the Water (New York: New Directions, 1987), 40. Copyright © 1987 by Denise Levertov. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
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James Baldwin, The War Crimes Tribunal: Freedomways 7.3 (Summer 1967): 242–44. Copyright © 1967 by James Baldwin. Originally published in Freedomways; copyright renewed; collected in The Cross of Redemption, published by Pantheon/Vintage Books. Reprinted by permission of the James Baldwin Estate.
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Thomas Merton, Nonviolence Does Not—Cannot—Mean Passivity: Ave Maria 108.8 (September 7, 1968): 9–10. Copyright © 1968 by the Merton Legacy Trust. Reprinted by permission. From “War and the Crisis of Language”: The Critique of War: Contemporary Philosophical Explorations, ed. Robert Ginsberg (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1969), 105–8. Copyright © 1969 by the Merton Legacy Trust. Reprinted by permission.
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Daniel Berrigan, from The Trial of the Catonsville Nine: The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Boston: Beacon Press, 1970), 82–82, 89–95. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press.
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Bernard Offen, To: Internal Revenue Service: Joel C. Taunton, “A Taxpayer Learns from Auschwitz,” Christianity and Crisis 47.5 (April 6, 1987): 26–27.
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Jane Hirshfield, I Cast My Hook, I Decide to Make Peace: The Beauty (New York: Knopf, 2015), 52–53. Copyright © 2015 by Jane Hirshfield. Reprinted in the United States by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC; reprinted in the United Kingdom by permission of Bloodaxe Books, www .bloodaxebooks.com. All rights reserved.
1. Jane Addams and Emily Greene Balch aboard the Noordam. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC.
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4. Bayard Rustin in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary. Courtesy of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
5. Juanita and Wally Nelson in 1946.
6. Albert S. Bigelow beside the Golden Rule. Courtesy of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
7. A. J. Muste launches a Committee for Nonviolent Action civil disobedience campaign. Courtesy of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
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