Introduction: Retaliation / Howard Zinn. --
Pre-twentieth century. Let a man overcome anger by love (520 B.C.) / Buddha ; from "Essay towards the present and future peace of Europe" (1693) / William Penn ; from "War" (1838) / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Civil disobedience (1849) / Henry David Thoreau. --
The fin de siecle to the Cold War (1900-1949). from "Newer ideals of peace" (1907) / Jane Addams ; from The trial of Scott Nearing and the American Socialist Society (1939) / Scott Nearing ; My faith in nonviolence (1930) / Mohandas K. Gandhi ; Pacifism (1936), Our country passes from undeclared war to declared war: we continue our Christian pacifist stand (1942) / Dorothy Day ; from "Reflections on war" (1933) / Simone Weil ; Neither victims nor executioners (1946) / Albert Camus ; Are we only paying lip service to peace? (1945) / Henry A. Wallace. --
The Cold War and Vietnam (1950-1975). Getting rid of war (1959) / A.J. Muste ; The case for unilateral disarmament (1960) / Erich Fromm ; The root of war is fear (1962) / Thomas Merton ; The way to disarmament (1962) / Rajendra Prasad ; Declaration of independence from the war in Vietnam (1967) / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Vietnam: the moral equation (1970) / Howard Zinn. --
Post-Vietnam to the present (1975- ). Communities of resistance: a conversation (1975) / Daniel Berrigan and Thich Nhat Hanh ; from The fate of the Earth (1984) / Jonathan Schell ; from The immorality of war: a conversation (1992), The dilemma of the absolute pacifist: a conversation / Daisaku Ikeda and Linus Pauling ; War is peace / Arundhati Roy ; Who's being naive? war-time realism through the looking glass (2001) / Tim Wise ; International appeal of Nobel Prize laureates, poets, philosophers, intellectuals and human rights defenders for an immediate end to the war against Afghanistan (2001)