The Power of Nonviolence : Writings by Advocates of Peace

Introduction: Retaliation vii Howard Zinn i. Pre-twentieth century Let a Man Overcome Anger by Love (520 B.C.) 3(2) Buddha ``Essay Towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe'' (1693) 5(3) William Penn ``War'' (1885) 8(7) Ralph Waldo Emerson Civil Disobedience (1849) 15(24) Henry David Thoreau ii. the fin de siecle to the cold war (1900-1949) ``Newer Ideals of Peace'' (1907) 39(3) Jane Addams The Trial of Scott Nearing and the American Socialist Society (1919) 42(3) Scott Nearing My Faith in Nonviolence (1930) 45(2) Mohandas K. Gandhi Pacifism (1936) 47(6) Dorothy Day Our Country Passes from Undeclared War to Declared War; We Continue Our Christian Pacifist Stand (1942) 50(3) ``Reflections on War'' (1933) 53(4) Simone Weil Neither Victims nor Executioners (1946) 57(17) Albert Camus Are We Only Paying Lip Service to Peace? (1946) 74(9) Henry A. Wallace iii. the cold war and vietnam (1950-1975) Getting Rid of War (1959) 83(9) A. J. Muste The Cse for Unilateral Disarmament (1960) 92(4) Erich Fromm The Root of War Is Fear (1962) 96(9) Thomas Merton The Way to Disarmament (1962) 105(8) Rajendra Prasad Declaration of Independence from the War i Vietnam (1967) 113(12) MartinLuther King, Jr. Vietnam: The Moral Equation (1970) 125(16) Howard Zinn iv. Post-vietnam to the Present (1975-) Communities of Resistance: A conversation (1975) 141(21) Daniel Berrigan Thich Nhat Hanh The Fate of the Earth (1984) 162(12) Jonathan Schell The Immortality of War: A Conversation (1992) 174(8) Daisaku Ikeda Linus Pauling The Dilemma of the Absolute Pacifist: A Conversation (1992) 178(4) War Is Peace (2001) 182(11) Arundhati Roy Who's Being Naive? War-Time Realism through the Looking Glass (2001) 193(5) Tim Wise International Appeal of Novel Price Laureates, Poets, Philosophers, Intellectuals and Human Rights Defenders for an Immediate End to the War agaisnt Afghanistan (2001) 198(3) Credits 201