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Merton Center Manuscripts:

'Our heritage of civil disobedience'



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Civil disobedience |
Nonviolence |


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1. Article (Essay) D.1 Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968; 1983 IFOR report [International Fellowship of Reconciliation] Selections by Merton from "Nonviolence and Christian Conscience" (Faith and Violence) and "Letter to a Young Activist" (letter to James Forest, 1966). There are also quotes by other authors regarding civil disobedience, including Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Henry David Thoreau, Joan Baez, Daniel Berrigan, and Jim Douglass. See also:  Letter to a young activist --> «detailed view» -->

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