Table of Contents
Introduction ix
I Beginnings
Quakers 3
1 First Letter to the Delaware Indians William Penn 3
2 Journal John Woolman 4
Abolitionists 9
3 Declaration of Sentiments, 1838 William Lloyd Garrison 9
4 Christian Non-Resistance Adin Ballou 13
5 Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau 17
6 Passive Resistance Elihu Burritt 25
Anarchists and Progressives 29
7 Anarchism: What It Really Stands For Emma Goldman 29
8 The Moral Equivalent of War William James 32
9 Crime and Punishment Clarence Darrow 37
10 Suffragettes, Letters from Prison, 1917 44
Conscientious Objectors, World War I 52
11 Personal Reactions during War Jane Addams 52
12 Roger Baldwin and Others: Statements of Conscientious Objection, 1917-1918 60
13 Atlanta Prison-1917 Ammon Hennacy 64
14 Christ or Country? J. George Ewert 79
15 The Fort Leavenworth General Strike Stephen M. Kohn 83
II Practicing Nonviolence
The Labor Movement between the Wars 91
16 The Lawrence Strike of 1919 A.J. Muste 91
17 Sit-Down Joel Seidman 103
18 A Union without a Contract John Sargent 118
Conscientious Objectors, World War II 122
19 Why We Refused to Register Donald Benedict and Others 122
20 The Battle of Anapamu Creek William Stafford 124
21 Conscientious Objectors in Prison Mulford Sibley Asa Wardlaw 129
22 From Yale to Jail David Dellinger 133
Direct Action for Peace, Post-World War II 137
23 Pilgrimage of a Conscience Maurice McCrackin 137
24 Why I Am Sailing into the Pacific Bomb-Test Area Albert Bigelow 139
25 Visible Witness Wilmer Young 144
26 Southern Peace Walk: Two Issues or One? Barbara Deming 152
Direct Action for Civil Rights, Post-World War II 163
27 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Statements of Principle 163
A Core Rules for Action 163
B SNCC Statement of Purpose 164
28 Jailed-In Thomas Gaither 165
29 In Pursuit of Freedom William Mahoney 176
30 Voter Registration, Mississippi and Georgia 185
A Mississippi Violence vs. Human Rights 185
B A Statement from the Burgland High School Students 187
C Message from Jail Robert Moses 187
D Statement by a High School Student 188
E [Jack] Chatfield, Lee County Report 189
31 Birmingham, Alabama 193
A Birmingham Manifesto, 1963 193
B Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham City Jail 195
The New Catholicism 209
32 Dorothy Day 209
A Peter Maurin 210
B Letter to the Unemployed 215
C Protesting Civil Disobedience 216
33 Letter to James Forest Thomas Merton 224
34 A World Where Abortion Is Unthinkable Shelley Douglass 225
35 Dead Man Walking Helen Prejean 232
III New Times, New Ideas
Nonviolent Revolution 253
36 The Future of Nonviolence David Dellinger 253
37 Beyond Vietnam Vincent Harding 260
38 On Revolution and Equilibrium Barbara Deming 274
39 Singing across Dark Spaces: The Union/Community Takeover of the Pittston Coal Company's Moss 3 Coal Preparation Plant Jim Sessions Fran Ansley 297
We Won't Go 320
40 Declaration of Conscience against the War in Vietnam 320
41 Leaflet, McComb, Mississippi 321
42 Marjorie Swann, Noncooperation 322
43 The Pentagon: October 1967 325
A Maris Cakars and Others, The Siege of the Pentagon 326
B Democracy from the Heart Gregory Mevala Calvert 332
44 Philip Berrigan, and Others, Statement of the Catonsville Nine Daniel Berrigan 337
45 The Burning of Paper Instead of Lives 340
Soldiers against War 345
46 The Presidio 345
47 Statements Refusing Military Service 352
A An Inexcusable Reason to Sacrifice a Life Lynda Reiser, MD, 352
B Public Statement Jeff Paterson 355
C Statement of Refusal to Participate in Interventionist Wars Erik Glen Larsen 357
48 In Vietnam Brian Willson 358
49 Operation Dewey Canyon III 362
50 The Tracks Brian Willson 366
My Country Is the World 382
51 Witness for Peace Sharon Hostetler 382
52 Jewish Covenant of Sanctuary 385
53 Just and Unjust Wars Howard Zinn 386
54 Letters to The Wall 397
A Dear Comrades with Whom I Served Ken Barger 398
B I Knew Two of the Men Michael Uhl 399
C A Poem for Memorial Day… A Poem for Peace Peggy Akers 401
D A Second Response to the War in Vietnam John Rosenwald 402
E Is the War Over Now? Vicki Ryder 403
F Letter to the Vietnam Wall Roger Ehrlich 404
G On April 18th of 2016 Scott Camil 404
Healing Global Wounds 406
55 Seabrook 406
A Declaration of Nuclear Resistance 407
B Reflection on the Seabrook Occupation Cathy Wolff 408
56 Standing Rock 410
A Veterans For Peace, VFP Statement in Support of the Pipeline Resistance at Standing Rock 411
B Why I Answered the Call for Veterans to Go to Standing Rock Kevin Basl 412
C Statement by Wesley Clark Jr. 413
Index 415
