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EE eee ie Rs ee a °o see a Tog ue gee Sigal ; a ave Ne are here today, not simply on behalf of four'men, but°on behalf o: .~ life and hope.. We are here for life because our collhtry is bringing de- wx. Struction; violence and death ‘to the couhtry of the.Vietnamese. ° Look at ~~the evidence: more and mcre Viethamese are dying--soldéiérs, women, child ren, the aged. More end mere. suffer injuries, and manyof the ihjured re i§ ceive little Or ne medical ¢are. Homes; villages, cities, fields and fer “@sts-are being destreyed. People ate driveh frem theif homes into refuge _ Camps that are often no better than prisohs.. Phe country's traditions an economy and public morality are being shattered; And for all this cestru tion anc vilence and death the uniter States ‘bears a large. measure of re- “sponsibility. We do not covericok what the North Vietnamese ane the Natir Liberaticn Frent are coihg. But, as Americans, we are morally cesscnsibl for what cur own ccuntry dces, not for what cthers do. And so we cannzic Main silent when we are convinced ‘that out nation's action in Vietnam is wrong. We must speak out on behalf cf life an4A acainst feath, ani so we Stand here today with ail those other, Americans--people like br. Speck an his three companions--who are oppesed te our codktty's destructive aeticn Vietnam, and who are cppesing that acticn by nen-vinient mezas. sig ttn "¢ » . : ' - : 5 Ane we are here on behalf of hope, not @e8pair. To kill ancther per- 7 sen is an act cf despair, cf henelessness. To kill semeone is to say tha! there is no here cf dealing with that perscn in 2a human w2y, an? sc he mu: Simniy be eliminated. To kill is to despair ofcur cwn human rewers and oi the cther person's humanity. 2ut wa do net share that attitude of desral. We have hore--hcre that human beings can, in nen-violant ways, build a fe: uine Auman cemmunity, and build it out of justice and fidelity and leve. w@ Rave here that genuine love, cenuine concern fer others, is life-civix anc mcre rpcwerful than viclence and death. And so we stand here today fc: Rota, tirether with all these ches2 hires are in nmon-vicience and isve ia: stead of in nataim and nuclear tembs. - Finally, I am cften reminded ry myself that it is very easy and very sie fer ma to steak cut acainst the war in Vistnan because Ion schist PEVEen vears old and sm a ctlerc man, a Reman fathelic -riest. o2th cioine Tacts trotect me from the drizc and from th: @iificuls decision facing 3 VUNG Man cl Grill are wao is crcogei co the present war fer reasc.3 7 sTRSscienca. Tut it Io sc gaar2 the cecvicticons cf Br. rack Anf Nic thre. tomcanmicna ana cf the many veuns men “Ff leith are ono ire cometicci cial comesei to cae war, chen I $hcuid stand with them as feilyv as Torir ANS 32, wara that the selecnive firviecs Act mnakas it illsgib tes counsel, 1:12 QP anat anctnar «a retusa cr ivade rericseraticn sor garvics in ths amu ~.- 023, DAS Acw sounsei ail wno in conscience cannet today rarva in the ST i¢ iisrsi it ftiscs $455 S4ovir2 cy aGcever Aoneviclens Teans icy pecv2 flitting. And I crcmise t9 21a ari aret tram in wnartever wey ae. vay S Qip us viva 3 t¢ 3uitd «“tgisher and te work ¢oy8c.i2 Iss -.- = for peace. Ta Fagg ora Father Thomas Rauch, -S.J. __ Theology teacher, Regis Coir ; Rally in support of Dr. Benjamin Srceck, William Sloan Coffin, . % ° Michael Ferber, and Mitchell Goodém-n . -. . Denver, Colorado we ET piece ie — . Pais iad ° “te! . ‘ ¥ ? . es Pr ai