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Next day, less than three hours before adjournment, the pacifists counterattacked. Their leader was a bluff, hearty, don't-give-up-the-ship pacifist who bears a famed fighting name: John Paul Jones...
Even though I am a pacifist, too, I suddenly wanted to know a man like that, to fight alongside him. No patriotic utterances had ever stirred me before, because they are so often flat and dead, tied up with a dying order; but this one did. It is a new depth and a new light...
...knew all at once that things were worth dying for, that America is worth saving, if men can feel with breadth and power like that. The time is not yet when men can channel that power in the pacifist way, but the time will surely come if men like Crowe live and speak out. In his words I catch the same fire and truth that men must have caught from Lincoln's words at Gettysburg; today we do not have leaders like that; but a man like Crowe is the kind I would follow, through hell and high water...
...Pacifist Ayres...
...grind, and he spent more than twenty hours a week running the Student Food Service. He was a quiet fellow, interested in music and social anthropology, and in his political views inclining towards what his friends considered a somewhat naive utopianism. As a natural consequence he was a pacifist, and his beliefs made it impossible for him even to register for the draft. His refusal has earned him a sentence which, even under the present law, must be called severe...