A Peace Reader: Essential Readings on War, Justice, Non-violence, and World OrderJoseph Fahey, Richard Armstrong Paulist Press, 1992 - 483 pages A Peace Reader Revised contains articles reflecting different and even opposing viewpoints, offering competing visions of the future. They range from the scholarly to the folksy; from the philosophical to the satirical; from the didactic to the poetic. In an effort to help students develop critical thinking skills, the authors include study questions after every major article. The result is a book as contemporary as today's headlines and as timeless as the wisdom of the ages. |
Contents
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Militarism in America The Defense | 61 |
A Declining Empire Goes to War Paul Kennedy | 76 |
ROTC Today and Tomorrow Robert F Collins | 86 |
War Preparers Anonymous Kurt Vonnegut | 95 |
Pacem in Terris Pope John XXIII | 107 |
Letter from a Birmingham Jail Martin Luther | 113 |
Socialism Informs the Best of | 129 |
The Coward Eve Merriam | 439 |
Independence Henry David Thoreau | 443 |
War Is Kind Stephen Crane | 445 |
CounterAttack Siegfried Sassoon | 446 |
Strange Meeting Wilfred Owen | 448 |
The Battle of Blenheim Robert Southey | 450 |
The Canticle of Brother Sun St Francis of Assisi | 452 |
The War Prayer Mark Twain | 454 |
The Wail of the Children Mother Jones | 138 |
Ahimsa or the Way of Nonviolence Mohandas | 171 |
To Oliver Cromwell and The Time | 183 |
iii | 187 |
Letter to a NonCommissioned | 191 |
Why I Leave the F O R Reinhold | 198 |
The Individual Conscience A J Muste | 205 |
Are you a Conscientious Objector? CCCO | 213 |
The Techniques of Nonviolent Action Gene Sharp | 223 |
The Holocaust as a Problem in Moral | 230 |
Those Who Said No to the Holocaust David Kitterman | 249 |
Universal Declaration of Human | 333 |
Redefining National Security Lester R Brown | 339 |
Foreign Aid and U S National | 345 |
An International | 356 |
The Lesser Evil over the Greater Evil Jeane Kirkpatrick | 362 |
Americas Liberal Tradition Charles William | 370 |
Can Peace Be Imagined? Elise Boulding | 377 |
Toward a Paradigm of Peace Betty A Reardon | 391 |
The Scandal of Peace Education André Ryerson | 404 |
Scientists and the Peace Movement Johan Galtung | 421 |
September 1 1939 W H Auden | 433 |
A Theft from Those Who Hunger Dwight D | 455 |
HeroZero Anonymous G I | 456 |
A Debt of Generosity Thucydides | 457 |
Incident at Damascus Arkansas John Fandel | 458 |
The Hairy Man from the East Chief Luther Standing Bear | 459 |
My Religion Leo Tolstoy | 460 |
The Dhammadapada Buddha | 461 |
The Way of Life Laotse | 462 |
Break up Your Fallow Ground Hosea 464 | |
Hear This Micah 465 | |
Swords into Plowshares Micah 466 | |
Seek Good and Not Evil Amos 467 | |
Let Justice Roll Amos 468 | |
He Has Put Down the Mighty Luke 469 | |
The Spirit of the Lord Luke 470 | |
Blessed Are the Poor Matthew 471 | |
Put on the Armor that God Gives Ephesians 472 | |
Methods of Nonviolent Action Gene Sharp 473 | |
Peace Upon Earth Thomas Hardy 480 | |
Neither Blame Nor Praise Dante Alighieri 481 | |
Easy Essay Peter Maurin 482 | |
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Popular passages
Page 438 - If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam. A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home.
Page 336 - ARTICLE 17 (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property. ARTICLE 18 Ever} one has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. ARTICLE...
Page 62 - This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government.
Page 455 - Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Page 336 - Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
Page 336 - Article 19 Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.