Katharine Gun Quotes

I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

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.

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

My voice is still [i.e. silent] for war.

To stand up for peace and against war and for disarmament is very courageous here in America.

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

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

My mom gets so upset at me when I say stuff in the press about anything political, and it drives me crazy because I say to my mom: 'I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be.'

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've been proud to be the chair of the Stop the War coalition, proud to be associated with the Stop the War coalition.

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

I was very active in the peace movement, still am.

If it is right to honor those who served in the cause of war, then it is equally right to honor those who served the cause of resistance to war.

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

It is often pacifists who, halting and stumbling and not knowing whither they are going, finally drift helplessly into a war.

I do hereby pledge myself never to enlist or enter into any army or navy, or to yield my voluntary support or sanction to the preparation for or prosecution of any war, by whomsoever or for whatsoever proposed, declared, or waged.

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 can say this very clearly: I have come into this Congress with an antiwar bias.

I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.

The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.

The most important thing today is to stop US wars.

If the workers of this world, men and women, decide not to manufacture and transport ammunition, it would end war for all time. We must do that. Dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war; ammunition factories.

Those of us who finally saw through the Vietnam war saw through this war, and all the actions that were necessary to end the Vietnam war will be necessary here. I think the American people will get us out of this war.