A. J. MUSTE

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

Both say to the other "I don't trust you and will not take any chances, but I ask you to trust me and take the chances which that involves.

If I can't love Hitler, I can't love at all.

To permit ourselves to be provoked into violence would mean defeating ourselves; our real power is in our solidarity and our capacity to endure suffering rather than to give up the fight for the right to organize; no one can weave wool with machine guns; that cheerfulness was better for morale than bitterness and that therefore we would smile as we passed the machine guns and the police on the way from the hall to the picket lines around the mills.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

The great mass of 18-year olds ... are given no choice.... The older generation immolates the younger, on the alter of Moloch ]. What God, centuries ago, forbade Abraham to do even to his own son,—"Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him" [Genesis 22:12]—this we do by decree to the entire youth of a nation.

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

To permit ourselves to be provoked into violence would mean defeating ourselves; our real power is in our solidarity and our capacity to endure suffering rather than to give up the fight for the right to organize; no one can weave wool with machine guns; that cheerfulness was better for morale than bitterness and that therefore we would smile as we passed the machine guns and the police on the way from the hall to the picket lines around the mills.

The oppressed will make surer and faster progress if they eschew violence and depend, as they do mainly depend in their organizing and strike activities, on their solidarity, courage, capacity for suffering and sacrifice, and on non-cooperation where injustice becomes extreme

All peoples should be assured of equitable access to markets and to essential raw materials.

The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence will pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

Both say to the other "I don't trust you and will not take any chances, but I ask you to trust me and take the chances which that involves.

The great mass of 18-year olds ... are given no choice.... The older generation immolates the younger, on the alter of Moloch ]. What God, centuries ago, forbade Abraham to do even to his own son,—"Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him" [Genesis 22:12]—this we do by decree to the entire youth of a nation.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.

Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.

If I can't love Hitler, I can't love at all.

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.