Quotes About Objector

The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

A young man with an untrimmed beard and rebellious eyes looked like a conscientious objector to everything.

They asked if I knew what "conscientious objector" meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.

No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.

Majored in staying out of Vietnam.

I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.

How many people volunteer for an army and then claim conscientious objector status?