David Dellinger

Violence makes people commit atrocious evil without even realizing it.

— David Dellinger

My position has always been to avoid violence to avoid provocation.

— David Dellinger

I always emphasize that in the long run one can't satisfactorily say no to war, violence and injustice unless one is simultaneously…

— David Dellinger

The conflict is not between the people and the antiwar movement, but between the people and the government.

— David Dellinger

If the U.S. has its Vietnam... the Soviet Union has its Czechoslovakia. If the U.S. has its blacks and chicanos, then the…

— David Dellinger

I have great hope, great faith in the coming generation.

— David Dellinger

Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

— David Dellinger

It doesn't pay to pretend that Vietnam was not a criminal war.

— David Dellinger

Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.

— David Dellinger

This court is in contempt of human life, dignity and justice.

— David Dellinger

The worst thing that can happen to the New Left in this country is to turn the struggle into a military struggle…

— David Dellinger

Americans get fooled because we think we're trying to help the peasants down there in El Salvador, even though we're propping up…

— David Dellinger

We are no longer demonstrators. We are not actors, we are now people committed to the proposition that if the government won't…

— David Dellinger

A man is just as dead if he dies of malnutrition as of bullets.

— David Dellinger

Let the Third World get some self-determination. Let the Nicaraguans make their own mistakes.

— David Dellinger

Political democracy has failed in the U.S. because there hasn't been economic democracy.

— David Dellinger

I'm just a feeble old man but I represent the spirit of speaking out.

— David Dellinger

Every act we perform today must reflect the kind of relationships we are fighting to establish tomorrow.

— David Dellinger

When I see you looking to me, I have to say, 'Build your own lives.'

— David Dellinger

Out of the warmth and loving nature of my home, I got an impulse of a politics that was very different from…

— David Dellinger

“This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who…

— David Dellinger

Prison is what really radicalized me most deeply. I remember thinking, my God, these people did things that were no worse than…

— David Dellinger

Living among society's outcasts and experiencing the brutality of America's prison system did more to set (or confirm) the direction of my…

— David Dellinger

I think the myth about the 'silent generation' is just that, a myth.

— David Dellinger

When people asked me what I thought when Jerry Rubin went to Wall Street, I would say, 'I still feel palpitations of…

— David Dellinger