Landmark speeches on US pacifism
By: edited and with an introduction by Susan Schultz Huxman
Edition: First edition.
Series: Landmark speeches; Landmark speeches
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781623492854
Subjects: Sources; Rhetoric; War and society; Political oratory; War; Pacifism; Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Other titles: Landmark speeches on United States pacifism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: World War I, isolationism, and democratic freedoms; title: Jane Addams: "Patriotism and pacifists in war time," June 16, 1917; title: Robert La Follette: "Free speech in wartime," October 6, 1917; title: A.J. Muste: "The church's responsibility for peace: a matter of life and death," June 7, 1937; title: World War II, civilian public service, and the atom bomb; title: Jeanette Rankin: "Mass action and its effect on international cooperation for world peace," July 8, 1937; title: Albert Einstein: "The 2 percent speech," December 14, 1930; title: Dorothy Day: "Union Square speech," November 6, 1965; title: The Cold War, nuclear proliferation, and Native American reparations; title: Linus Pauling: "Nuclear savagery," 1960; title: Benjamin Spock: "A radical political alternative for 1972," May 3, 1972; title: Chief Lawrence Hart: "Cheyenne peace traditions," April 6, 1981; title: Vietnam, civil disobedience, and civil rights; title: Martin Luther King Jr.: "Beyond Vietnam: a time to break silence," April 4, 1967; title: William Sloane Coffin: "Not to bring peace, but a sword," February 16, 1992; title: Muhammad Ali: "Press conference on religious affiliation," February 26, 1964; "Special hearing on draft exemption," August 23, 1966; "Official statement refusing induction into the Armed Forces," April 25, 1967; title: Nuclear disarmament, US leadership, and environmental concerns; title: Senator Mark O. Hatfield: "Peace through strength is a fallacy," August 2, 1989; title: Helen Caldicott: "This beautiful planet," June 3, 1981; title: Ronald J. Sider: "Jesus's call to be peacemakers," July 28, 1984; title: NGOs, peace activism, and Iraq; title: Jody Williams: "A global ban on landmines," December 3, 1997; title: Colman McCarthy: "Peace education in a nuclear age," February 15, 2008; title: John Dear: "Speech at the national march against the Iraq War," January 18, 2003.