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I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.

~A. Philip Randolph

Topics: Aid Any Black Black And White Both Conscription Counsel Crow Jim Jim Crow Myself Openly Personally Pledge System White Youth

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War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.

~Bayard Rustin

Topics: Act Believe Conscience Conscription Degree Follow Freedom Inconsistent Merely Receives Right Truth Vocation War Which Wrong

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I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.

~Bayard Rustin

Topics: Act Am Any Apart Body Conscription Entirely Hold Issue Military Military Training Opponent Part Politic Preparations Segregation Slavery Training Universal War I Am

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Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to both these essential phases of war administration.

~Chiang Kai-Shek

Topics: Acquisition Administration Applicable Both Conscription Equity Essential Food Fundamental Fundamental Principle Government Important Less Phases Principle Supplies Than Time War

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All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.

~Chrissie Hynde

Topics: Acting Anymore Back Baseball Bring Caps Children Conscription Guys Know Like Maybe Me Men Most Nose Punch Responsibility Saying Shorts Take Up Wearing Winds Would

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I believe that if the entire voting population of the United States could be taken in small groups on a personally conducted tour of even the neutral countries of Europe, 85 percent of them would vote next November for any presidential candidate of any party who could convincingly promise them a big navy and conscription.

~Elmer Davis

Topics: Any Believe Big Candidate Conscription Could Countries Entire Europe Even Groups Navy Neutral Next November Party Percent Personally Population Presidential Promise Small States Taken Them Tour United United States Vote Voting Who Would I Believe I Believe That

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