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by Inez modd:jnee a matter of individual conviction; now it is an instrument of well - organized policy.In the long past, the conscientious objector has objected to war per se. Or rather, he has fiercely objected to killing his fellow man in no matter what cause. His conscience, his deepest convictions have demanded that he refuse to take a human life.Democratic society has grudgingly recognized the conscientious objector. Democracy, if it believes in Voltaire’s dictum: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,” can certainly do no less.wThe old breed of conscientious objector — the one who objected to war as war and to the.destruction of his fellow man—is the one we understand.What confuses the issue lodavwith this new' type of draft-cardburner is that he is not. fundamentally, the old - fashioned kind of conscientious objector. He is an entirely new specimen who burns his draft card in an effort not so much to avoid combat as to change the nation’s foreign policy.
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Abilene Reporter News
Abilene, Texas, US
Wed, Nov 10, 1965
Page 54
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