Al Sharpton Quotes

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

I never aligned myself specifically with the anti-war movement.

There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

I was not a conscientious objector. I was a political objector. I believed that finance and commercial rivalry had led to war.

If I am called an appeaser because I oppose the country’s entry into the present war, I gladly accept the title.

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

I say openly that I am an anti-war person, with the point being, show me some reason not to be against this war. You have to be sort of asleep at the switch not to be critical of it. And the parallel between one quagmire we went through in Vietnam and the one we're in now is clear for everybody to see.

I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.

I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be. I am against the war and I am very vocal about it.

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.

I wouldn't say I was part of an anti-war campaign.

No music is going to stop the war. What's going to stop the war is a large amount of body bags, or a large amount of people in the streets, protesting it before it starts.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

I am against all war.

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.