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A Stetecent ON PLETNAM, AND °N PEACE. “Adopted by the Philadelphia Yearly. Meeting of the Religious Society ‘of Friends, “at its 267th annual sessions, Philadelphia, March 23 to 29, 1967, -° ~ This official statement of the Yearly Meeting grew out of a day of —~-exciting discussion and search, and a real anguish about Vietnam. Friends were concerned about reconciliation and aid to suffering people, -. but also about the peace-keeping role of the United Nations. - + Reproduced by Friends Peace Committee (Quakers) - Se 2520 Race St., Philadelphia 19102. me wo -” * We declare our faith in those abiding truths taught and exemplified by Jesus Cnrist -- tnat every individual of every race and nation is of supreme worth, *hat love is the highest law of life, and that violence is to be overcome by positive zood will. -This faith has led Friends from the beginning to oppose all war. As a -2sult Friends have often refused to fight in war, to pay war taxes or to participate in the economy of war. We have supported world organizations to end war, simultaneously ‘tempting to aid all victims of war, a3 an expression of universal human brotherhood. As citizens of the United Stetes we cannot fail to te avare that our nation has lad the world in the development, use and production of the most terrible weapons th c world has ever Known. We sre aware that more than half of our alevant than ever, out our living witness i3 woefully inadeciate. Our f3itn has no rowar until it igs incarnated in our Lives Young mén who choose Conssiegnticus Tojsctor ShaLUS of non-cocrerstion with the draft bear the brunt of sur opposition to war. ist of ug 29 littia more than particinate in eceasional pretssts and surport ef tercisea 3 those cur weazons have wounded. ‘Na nave uced the wosus of Curis:, out va nave act ‘“2spons have inflicted. . (over)