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...stability. For some, like Ross C. Owens '69, the events of '69 were a brief prelude to a longer period of activism. Owens entered and dropped out of divinity school after Harvard, and did two years of service as a minister to fulfill his duty as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam war. After being involved in community organizing and issues of social justice during those two years. Owens went to law school and worked for several years in a federally-funded legal services organization. "It took me a little while to put it all together," he says...
...such empirical disproof. The principled rejection of violence is endowed with a nobility that is, if anything, enhanced by its impracticality, by the fact that its practitioners knowingly expose themselves to danger and worse. It is because of this noble impracticality that in America pacifism (of the conscientious objector, for example) evokes at once respect and curiosity...
...called for classification, both physically and through examination, they then have the opportunity to state their conscientious objection. I have advised all young men to come out and register, and then when they are called they can state their conscientious objection and then by classified as a conscientious objector...
Indeed, it is difficult to see any great moral or philosophical issue in registration. Traditionally, for those who object to military service on such grounds, registration has been the first step to Selective Service classification as a conscientious objector. For those who failed to register because of a genuine commitment of conscience, this latest federal measure should serve to sharpen the moral issue of conscription--after all, an integral part of civil disobedience is acknowledgement of a violation of the law, and free acceptance of punishment for that violation...
...emerges. A staunch believer in representative democracy, MacLeish quickly identified threats to the ideals of the Republic he believed in, whether from the left or the right. In the early thirties he was one of the first to attack the Marxist positions fashionable among writers and critics. An early objector to the House Un-American Activities Committee, he drew McCarthy's public condemnation, though he never actually had to testify. He detested Communism as "rotten with the diseases from which all established police state suffer," but thought it should be combatted not through the reactionary defensiveness of the Eisenhower Administration...