A. J. Muste was active in the
pacifist movement, labor movement and the US
civil rights movement.
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- There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
- As quoted in The New York Times, (16 November 1967)
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- The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence will pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
- We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.