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...points stand out. First, although the draft itself is the focus for the Union's work, and the Union has called for "no draft for an unjust war," it has not put together a program of its own for an end to the draft altogether, for a different system of deferments, a volunteer army, etc. There were reasons for this-the Union probably never could have agreed upon a program. It feared, for example, that by calling for an end to the draft altogether it might alienate large segments of its potentially broad-based support. But this, in turn...
...umbrella of negotiations." To the question "does escalation of the war increase prospects of war with China?" 85 per cent answered "yes," and 83 per cent said they would "support those individuals who decide to refuse cooperation with the Selective Service System because they consider the war in Vietnam unjust and immoral...
...have been asked to join other members of the Harvard Faculty in offering support "as we individually can" to "those Harvard students who decide to refuse cooperation with Selective Service because they consider the war in Vietnam unjust and immoral." I can say, without qualification, that I despise the war and hate to see anyone going off to fight in it. At the same time, beyond the means suggested in Conrad Lyn's well-known book, the consequences of refusal to comply with the draft are jail or exile...
...from the luminous words he flung into the face of white America: "We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws. We will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer. And in winning our freedom, we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process." In his death, if not in life, Martin Luther King may have gone far toward that...
...distinguished colleague Talcott Parsons, with whom I agree on most matters, has charged the Harvard President and Corporation with suppression of academic freedom in vetoing the decision of the Syndics of the Harvard University Press to publish The Double Helix by James Watson. I believe this is unjust and I rise in a limited way to their defense...