Conscientious Objector Quotes
- 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… — Malcolm X
- As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939 and I have… — Donald Saunders
- It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns. — Harold Pinter
- 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… — Albert Einstein
- War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. — John F. Kennedy
- 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… — Laurence Housman
- 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… — John Fitzgerald Kennedy