John Wooden Quotes

Anybody who walks out peacefully, who protests peacefully, that's what this country was built on.

I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.

If it takes a bloodbath, then let's get it over with.

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.

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

War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.

I am against all war.

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 thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.

I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

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.

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

They're worse than the brown shirts and the communist element and also the night riders and the vigilantes. They're the worst kind of people we harbor in America. I think that we're up against the strongest, well-trained, militant revolutionary group that has ever assembled in America.... We're going to eradicate the problem, we're not going to treat the symptoms.

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