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
Tremendous Conscientious Objectors quotations
Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.
It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
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 the betterment of society.
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 and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.
At the vital point of truth, we all become a conscientious objector.
People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent.
.. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.
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 objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
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 me one, as soon as I got to the front.
I wouldn't choose conscientious objector and I wouldn't go to Canada.
I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I think the threw me a bone as the war was winding down, and I think they accepted my sincerity for being against that war.
... I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes.