Pacifist

Leo Tolstoy

Literature

literary realism

1828–1910

"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."

🇺🇸Martin Luther King Jr.

Social Activism

civil rights movement

1929–1968

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

🇩🇪Hermann Hesse

Literature

existentialism

1861–1948

"If I know what love is, it is because of you."

Emma Goldman

Social Activism

1869–1940

"The people are asleep; they remain indifferent. They forge their own chains and do the bidding of their masters to crucify their Christs."

🇬🇧Vera Brittain

Literature

1893–1970

"It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men’s attitude to women, and in women’s attitude to themselves."

🇺🇸Joan Baez

Music

b. 1941

"Observations of a Joan Baez Concert" by Leyser and White"

🇺🇸Herbert M. Shelton

Politics

1895–1985

"It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated."

🇺🇸Philip Berrigan

Religion

Plowshares Movement

1923–2002

"The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel."