Occupation: Pacifist Birth: January 21, 1884 Death: August 26, 1981
I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired..
I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the pr….
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Chri….
I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything….
The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace ….
I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought w….
The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists in uni….