Civil Disobedience: David Dellinger

Civil Disobedience: David Dellinger David Dellinger is mostly known for being part of the Chicago Seven, but his radicalism started far before the Vietnam War. By the time he graduated from Yale in 1938, he had already been arrested while “marching to support unionisation at Yale” (Carlson). Dellinger discovered pacifism was the best when, during an argument at a Yale football game, he punched his opponent. He learned his lesson like a child learns after touching a hot stove, not to do it again. (Carlson). During his visit to Europe, he got to witness Nazi Germany and civil war in Spain first hand. It was then when he realized that “whoever won the armed struggle, it would not be the people” (Carlson). When conscription was passed in 1940,