Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History.

The Progressive | October 1, 1995| | Copyright

By Staughton Lynd and Alice Lynd Orbis Books. 530 pages. $45.00 cloth; $25.00 paper.

In the courses on nonviolence that I've been teaching since the early 1980s, I start off with a spot quiz: "Raise your hands if you can identify these six people: Robert E. Lee, U.S. Grant, Paul Revere, Jane Addams, Jeanette Rankin, and Dorothy Day."

Out of 5,000 students over the years, not one has named all six. Nearly all hands go up on the first three, with rarely a raised hand on the last three. Everyone knows the peacebreakers but not the peacemakers.

Students ...

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