Of Holy Disobedience

The following excerpt is from the conclusion of Muste's essay "Of Holy Disobedience." First published in 1952, the essay was primarily concerned with the debate among pacifists at that time over the appropriate degree of cooperation with the peace-time draft. This excerpt is from The Essays of A.J. Muste, edited by Nat Hentoff and is used by permission of the publisher, Simon and Schuster.—The Editors