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• They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off… — Malcolm X
• The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the… — Clarence Darrow
• As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939… — Unknown Author
• 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… — 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… — Laurence Housman
• Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day… — John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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