“In the face of the threats that nuclear warfare preparations put to all mankind, it is my duty, as a man and as an American citizen, to voice both my protest against these preparations and my pleas for a constructive policy instead. If I remain silent, how am I to answer later, should some high court ask: “…and what, knowing these things to be wrong, were you, a free, responsible citizen of a democracy doing to prevent them?…”

Albert Bigelow from The Voyage of the Golden Rule