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Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam — Part 1

129 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Jan 18, 1967 · Broad topic: Religion & Belief · Topic: Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam · 129 pages OCR'd
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a YC oe a ey dame Ph eater ee ESISTATN DE - “OCT On “ot ober is, thousends of young nen ell acress the pation wil . CEERI CARN Mt gen. ke Bm aes : ep cease to edoverate ‘With the Selective Service System and the draft, _. es Dur complicity sill no loger Isgitinatize the draft and the monstrous. eae war .of penceiéc which our nation ywaeces in Victnen, Unitcd, we will = Ot _ resist the wer.iachincry which fceds on our silencc, on our fezr, on ‘4 our civisicn, Each ene of us will begin to frec hinself, Our collect= ive act of rcsistance will besin to free America and the ere i TIAL Victnan fru. the militery onpressicn which now destrays our li end meel:s our ¢omnon huwnity. - Our resistonee begins with a belief that yrung ancricans should not be cocnelled tz sleuchter othcr hun bcines in Vietnan, We heve fa setvered thet our rulers he ve Tied to us about the nature ef thie ee pe ee ee ee ee Wi biel Saal aoe 7 unjust war and rcalize that the Sclective Service System end the dreft arc néccesayy for the continuetion fer our nation's arincs apeinst huminity, Men of us oppose ecnseription itsclf bseause of its denial of personal frcedo.: and all of us arc aware of the unfairness of the system ef cconserintion now in usc. The militcry mecncss of om sceicty . is desrcyince both Victnan and Ancrica and poses a proving threat to ° the existanec of huzan life, We wish to act cffeetively, to publicly ehallansc the lesitinagy of the var and the draft, and eventually to deny tho wernzkers the youn: bodics they nied for the yer, Meny ef us new have é.fern GMb Sac vail rencunce the WM, We realize that the student acformunt, the conreicnticus cbjcetcr status toa Sclect few, doforrcnis for the eclerzsy and civinity students, the I-¥ elascificcticn, ene the other fovers ¢ cispensed th the Sclce¢tive Service System, arm: the tocls of the waremekers that are uscd to” silenec, raninulate end divide yrunt men and prevent the growth of united ooptsitiin fo censcrip ticn anc the war, The student dcferments Aare their best weap, The caupus, when youns pe ople have acecss to the truth, is the esntur ‘of tae nost votnl oppcsitieon to the wer, The Vermekers, knew thet seny stidonts woulc rcfuse inducticn and thet reesive resistanec vould crupt if studcnts were ersfted, They weit until th. studint hac left the ernpus, and 4f he hes net yet been chonslled “ints an aroreved cccuntticn, then he is teken, einsly, and if he rcfuscs, sadlid, eloncsYhen it is casy fer there when ther is ne exsswiith cf yount pewle to rettet, Ther ssteratieally divide th tceslthy frea the nocr, the student fron the worger, the inferned fren the densrant. 4112 in the intersst of the rer m rrehine, 62 tht 4t wtil function silently, smoothly. Defcracnts are 6 taeiie of th s:stui, eassurcnec thet it vill continue te enslav end kill, sclectivels, sriccthly and cilcntly, We have crostitut tcd oursclycs to the nenstrot as desircs ‘of the war michin:s, Tech of us earrics a card, token of their parrent for our ¢7liusi«n, sy bol of cur hope tht vx vill continu: to please. - our miéstcrs en? reecive their favors, Scekine enly to cseape the écagh nachinis with our civ hands, we have vermitted oursclves to be propieancizud, cocrecd, end divided, “4 NO WE GILL BE UNITED IN ova RESISTANCE
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