Summary: Roger Nash Baldwin
Cooper Vos
6th Grade Language Arts
January 7, 2016
DRAFTING DANGER/CONSCRIPTION CRISIS.
“I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.”. Or maybe, “I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.
-Roger Nash Baldwin, American civil-rights activist.
These are two of Roger Nash Baldwin’s multiple quotes about conscription, and I mostly whole-heartedly, agree. Why I say mostly, is the fact that conscription in itself, is purely and ultimately, violating our rights, but we are trying
6th Grade Language Arts
January 7, 2016
DRAFTING DANGER/CONSCRIPTION CRISIS.
“I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.”. Or maybe, “I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.
-Roger Nash Baldwin, American civil-rights activist.
These are two of Roger Nash Baldwin’s multiple quotes about conscription, and I mostly whole-heartedly, agree. Why I say mostly, is the fact that conscription in itself, is purely and ultimately, violating our rights, but we are trying