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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.

I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.