War Dissent Quotes

In all the great wars of England, the war of the American Revolution, the war against the French Revolution, the Crimean War,, there were men who stood out against those ventures, and against a nation lashed to madness by the appeals and lies of its leaders. They were but a miserable minority, but history has triumphantly vindicated them.

We may have government surveillance people listening in on Quaker anti-war meetings.

I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops.

In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%).

The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.

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

A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought, within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world.

Well, let me tell you, any conservative that's unhappy with George Bush warms my heart, in any way that they can wake up and smell the coffee would be really great.

And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.