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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

A J Muste
A. J. Muste (1885-1967) Dutch-American minister, labor and civil rights activist, pacifist [Reverend Abraham Johannes Muste]
“Debating Dissent,” New York Times (16 Nov 1967)

Sometimes attributed to Gandhi, or cited as a quote of Gandhi by Muste.
 
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Nonconformity, Holy Disobedience, becomes a virtue and indeed a necessary and indispensable measure of spiritual self-preservation, in a day when the impulse to conform, to acquiesce, to go along, is the instrument which is used to subject man to totalitarian rule and involve them in permanent war.

A J Muste
A. J. Muste (1885-1967) Dutch-American minister, labor and civil rights activist, pacifist [Reverend Abraham Johannes Muste]
“Of Holy Disobedience” (1952)
 
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If I can’t love Hitler, I can’t love at all.

A J Muste
A. J. Muste (1885-1967) Dutch-American minister, labor and civil rights activist, pacifist [Reverend Abraham Johannes Muste]
Statement, Quaker meeting (1940)

Recalled on his death, New York Times (12 Feb 1967)
 
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