Word: resister
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There is a qualm that may trouble those who successfully follow Suttler's or Tatum's advice: if the draft misses one person. it finds another to do its dirty work. The quick reply is that if you don't resist, you will be in uniform, killing and being killed; and there is no convincing evidence why that is any better than someone else doing...
...more important reason. however, is that one man's success need not mean another's failure-if all are ready to resist. The same loophole that lets out one man can accommodate a hundred more. if all are properly informed. The problem is that such campaigns of attrition will be futile-and will lead to even greater class discrimination in the draft-as long as thousands of victims ride uninformed to the slaughter. Cambridge needs books like IV-F and the Handbook: but the Army's supply of hamburger will be cut off only when the lifesaving manuals also reach...
...should not/ Be noble to myself." The theme, which pulses in Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, Hamlet and western poetry, is that there is a conflict between words and poetry in which moral dignity and reason itself are consumed by degraded language. The nobility of man and woman must resist the corruption of mad discourse. The argument of values in Troilus and Cressida, a singularly distasteful but revelatory play, becomes a murderous melodrama of confused abstraction and disfigured moral orthodoxy. Men have lost the traditional meaning of reason, action, pride, and honor, yet oppose these, in bitter debates between corrosive...
...practical grounds, any time you segregate human beings, the opportunity to discriminate is present. Up to now, the majority has never been able in any society to resist that temptation. But if we are integrated, we cannot be discriminated against. We buy the same bad meat and are taught by the same bad teachers. What...
...happiest conspirators were separated, Philip Berrigan in a federal prison and Daniel Berrigan, for the moment at least, in hiding. Both had been scheduled to begin their sentences April 9 for draft board raids at Baltimore and Catonsville.* Both had decided, in Daniel Berrigan's words, "to resist this automatic claim on our persons" and to make at least one more public appearance before being jailed to protest the Viet Nam War, racism and the oppression of the poor...