Instead of violence
Subtitle: writings by the great advocates of peace and nonviolence throughout history
By: edited and with notes and introductions by Arthur and Lila Weinberg
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1965
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
Subjects: Peace
Description: Compilation of writings from 550 B.C. to the present on the topics of peace, nonviolence, civil disobedience and passive resistance.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [475]-483.
Table of contents: title: Pope John XXIII asks the world to halt the arms race; title: Lillian Smith writes of a strange kind of love; title: Rajendra Prasad calls for unilateral disarmament; title: Danilo Dolci asks humanity to cure itself of violence; title: Leo Szilard suggests the election of government officials solely on the issue of war and peace; title: Harold Taylor says the time has come for intellectuals to come to terms with the issues of war and peace; title: Sidney Lens condemns civil defense for giving a treacherous sense of security; title: James Farmer reports on a Freedom Ride; title: Herbert Read calls for a revolt of the instincts of man against the threat of mass destruction.; title: Bertrand Russell sets out the case for nonviolent civil disobedience in combating the nuclear peril; title: James R. Newman suggests : "Let our children go"; title: Albert Luthuli explains why Africans have chosen nonviolence to turn enmity into amity; title: Robert Pickus shows that pacifism is working in most areas of life except war; title: Harris Wofford presents the lawyer's case for civil disobedience; title: Martin Luther King, Jr. traces his pilgrimage to nonviolence; title: Peace organizations give their rules for public witness demonstrations; title: Jerome D. Frank declares that war-making man is modifiable; title: Erich Fromm defines his one main concern; title: Maurice F. McCrackin refuses to pay taxes if the money is used to prepare for war.; title: Stephen King-Hall presents a plan for the nonviolent resistance of enemy occupation; title: Abraham Cronbach says the the only national defense is international amity; title: Linus Pauling urges research for peace; title: Albert Schweitzer calls for a new trust among all peoples; title: Fifty-two Nobel Laureates plead for nations to renounce force; title: A.J. Muste discusses the workability of nonviolence; title: Martin Buber believes that genuine dialogue between people can overcome conflict; title: Vinoba Bhave is not afraid of world wars, but rather of small wars and quarrels; title: Norbert Wiener points out that to provide scientific information is not necessarily an innocent act; title: Emil Brunner perceives that war has begun to outlive its purpose.; title: Kirby Page reminds nations that the only defense against atomic war is the prevention of all war; title: Albert Camus visualizes an endless struggle between violence and friendly presuasion; title: Albert Einstien believes a permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats; title: Arthur Wiser explans why he walked out of Civilian Public Service Camp no. 94; title: Evan Thomas explains that peace can be demanded only on the basis of conscience; title: Henry Miller says: "Murder the Murderer"; title: Harry Emerson Fosdick explains why he cannot participate in a war even if the United States is drawn into it; title: Ernest Fremont Tittle states the case for Christian pacifism.; title: Continued 1 : Arle Brooks defends his refusal to register for the draft; title: Richard B. Gregg assures pacifists that the sacrifice of oneself is an affirmation of a greater unity; title: Milton S. Mayer anounces he is "going to sit this one out"; title: George Lansbury calls on all European nations to abolish war; title: Lord Ponsonby insists that teaching hate is a crime; title: Gerald Heard diagnoses war as a symptom of a diseased civilization; title: Aldous Huxley shows that peace is a by-product of a certain way of life; title: Sherwood Eddy explains how he made his decision for peace; title: Ernst Toller offers a program for teaching the love of peace; title: Guglielmo Ferrero finds war nothing but a form of collective suicide; title: Simone Weil asks if a revolution can be accomplished without war.; title: Stephen Wise warns his congregation against supporting the deepest and most terrible sin of men; title: Roderick Seidenberg describes the prison life of conscientious objectors; title: Sigmund Freud examines the nature of man's aggressive instincts; title: Mahatma Gandhi describes his means of battle; title: Toyohiko Kagawa says violence is its own destruction; title: John Haynes Holmes see pacifism taking hold in personal relationships; title: Rosika Schwimmer petitions for naturalization; title: Judah Magnes supports the right of all men to speak freely; title: Scott Nearing shows war to be a social curse; title: Eugene V. Debs offers his defense to the court; title: G.F. Nicolai shows that morality and humanity are inseparable.; title: Roger Baldwin refuses to obey the draft; title: Siegfried Sassoon speaks for the soldiers; title: John Reed asks, "Whose war?"; title: Max Eastman challenges conscription; title: Randolph Bourne takes the American intellectuals to task for their lack of thinking; title: Norman Thomas makes a plea for the conscientious objector; title: Norman Angell answers the question, "If a German attacked your wife ..."; title: Hermann Hesse challenges a minister of state to end the dilemma of war; title: Meyer London speaks in Congress against declaring war on Germany; title: Alfred H. Fried predicts that pacifism will survive its failure to prevent the First World War; title: Floyd Dell explains his special brand of nonresistance.; title: Mark Twain forsees war a million years ahead; title: Emma Goldman calls "prepardness" the road to universal slaughter; title: Romain Rolland calls for an end to the homicidal fury in Europe; title: Karl Liebknecht votes "no" in the Reichstag; title: Abdu'l Bahia deplores man's descent to slaying; title: Havelock Ellis predicts that peace will offer great scope for daring and adventure; title: William James proposes a moral equivalent of war; title: Charles E. Jefferson urges Christians to batter down institutions that make war; title: Jane Addams observes the passing of the war virtues; title: Bertha von Suttner explains how she came to write Lay Down Your Arms; title: Clarence Darrow decries violence and force as punishment.; title: Continued 2: Friedieric Passy salutes the future of arbitration; title: Jean de Bloch describes the burdens of "armed peace"; title: Leo Tolstoy pleads for each man to follow his own reason and conscience; title: Herbert Sepncer deplores the cry of "our country, right or wrong!"; title: Alfred Love urges a friend not to seve as a chalpian in the Civil War; title: Elihu Burritt proposes a working man's strike against war; title: William Lloyd Garrison denies that nonresistance is a state of "passivity"; title: Victor Hugo calls on all nations to hasten the day of international unity; title: Henry David Thoreau calls men to the duty of civil disobedience; title: Theodore Parker protests against the Mexican War.; title: Thomas Cooper says the regeneration of the world depends on moral resistance; title: Charles Sumner declares the victories of peace to be higher than the triumphs of war; title: William Jay insists that man is not compelled to do evil; title: William E. Channing asks, "Has the duty of obeying government no bounds?"; title: Adin Ballou charts a course for nonresistants; title: Ralph Waldo Emerson declares that the cause of peace is not the cause of cowardice; title: Thomas Carlyle describes the soldiers of Dumdrudge; title: Thomas Grimke calls the law of violence the law of murder; title: Joshua P. Blanchard envisions a patriotism based on pacific principles; title: William Ladd urges men to give public testimony for peace; title: Thomas Hancock condemns "necessity" as an excuse for war; title: Jonathan Dymond suggests that civil disobedience is the final duty of Christians; title: Noah Worchester shows that war is the effect of a popular delusion.; title: Immanuel Kant outlines the basis of perpetual peace; title: Job Scott shows war to be incompatible with Christianity; title: Anthony Benezet warns that the consequences of war are timeless; title: William Penn demonstrates that peace is not merely the end of war; title: Robert Barclay cites the Christian roots of nonviolence; title: James Nayler exalts peace on his deathbed; title: George Fox swears to Oliver Cromwell that he will do no violence; title: Hugo Grotius points out that in the confilct of arms, laws are silent; title: Erasmus questions whether man was shaped to war; title: Menno Simons condemns the use of carnal weapons.; title: Saint Martin withdraws from Julian's Army; title: Maximilian refuses to be conscripted into the Roman army; title: Origen says Christians need not fight for their kings; title: Tertullian asks if it is lawful to make an occupation of the sword; title: Agrippa urges the Jews not to undertake war against the Romans; title: The Bible; title: Asoka proclaims no living beings are to be killed; title: Aristophanes' Lysistrata strikes for peace; title: Motse shows that the gentlemen of the world are confused about the difference between righteousness and unrighteousness; title: Buddha pities a man who abuses him; title: Lao-Tse says that he who rejoices at the destruction of human life is not fit to be trusted with power.