"War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed."
Bayard Rustin was an American civil rights activist and strategist who helped organize the 1963 March on Washington. He was also a prominent advocate of nonviolence, labor rights, and human rights.