"How obey the laws of a state when they
run counter to man’s conscience?
'Thou shalt not kill,' Divine law states. 'A new precept I
give unto you that you love your brother as I have
loved you.' St. Peter disobeyed the law of men and
stated that he had to obey God rather than man.
Wars today involve total destruction, obliteration
bombing, killing of the innocent, the stockpiling of
atom and hydrogen bombs.
When one is drafted for such war, when one registers
for the draft for such a war, when one pays income tax,
eighty per cent of which goes to support such war, or
works where armaments are made, one is participating
in this war.
We are all involved in war these days. War means hatred
and fear.
Love casts out fear.
The social order which depends on profits, which does
not consider the nature of man’s needs, as to living
space, food and work, is a bad social order, and we
must work to make that kind of an order in which 'it is
easier for man to be good.'"
- Dorothy Day, February 1954