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My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.

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A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

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Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

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After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

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The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

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As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

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The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

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After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries - not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists.

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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: December 7th, 1928

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