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AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE WORLD AFFAIRS CAMP, PAINTED POST, NEW YORK, AUGUST 22 - 29, 1964: ‘ wae woe Gg "tworker and world affairs camper. Included in his long history of activities is teaching English Literature at Syracuse University and directing the peace program of the American Friends Service Committee, * an "He directed me to bring this message back to the Agency: ‘We were very gratified and pleased when - your Agency was established. But we have been very disappointed in you during the past year or so -- you aren't moving fast enough nor accomplishing enough. Tell your people that time 1s running out -- Look at these teenagers; they are the leaders of tomorrow. They don't want war - they want action. Now! They won't wait.? 7 7 oo "He and ED (HILLPERN) gave me copies of two American Friends! studies, entitled ‘Unilateral Initiatives and Disarmament? and 'Does Deterrence Deter?! and asked that I study them carefully. NORMAN also made the following claim forcefully and said they could do -so with great satisfaction ~- that the 'peace groups had defeated shelter program.! “NORMAN, in the presentation he ‘gave before ‘the group, made the following points: Non-violence does not signify passivity, but on the contrary, is most . active; one must be prepared to die while trying to overcome ~ with love -.the forces of obstruction. The way to apply the power of love is through: f 1) coercion (e.g., Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott), 2) conversion (changing nature of opponent), 3) per- sSuasion (examples, Gandhi, Women's Suffragist Movement), and 4) identification (Quakers hanged by Puritans while praying for accusers). ‘The last fifty years have demonstrated the way of war and violence and how they destroy the very freedom and democracy the United States fought to defend.