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I Am A Quaker. And As Everyone Knows, Quakers, For 300 Years, Have, On Conscientious Ground, Been Against Participating In War. I Was Sentenced To Three Years In Federal Prison Because I Could Not Religiously And Conscientiously Accept Killing My Fellow Man.

-Bayard Rustin

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I Am A Quaker. And As Everyone

Bayard Rustin

I Am A Quaker. And As Everyone Knows, Quakers, For 300 Years, Have, On Conscientious Ground, Been Against Participating In War. I Was Sentenced To Three Years In Federal Prison Because I Could Not Religiously And Conscientiously Accept Killing My Fellow Man.

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