Thoughts, poems and tales from war tax resisters, including Juanita Nelson, Allen Ginsberg and Pete Seeger.
“When the doors opened, I continued to sit. My thoughts were like buckshot, so scattered they didn’t hit anything or, when they did, made little dent. The robe was a huge question mark placed starkly after some vexing problems.
“Why am I going to jail? Why am I going to jail in a bathrobe? What does it matter in the scheme of things whether or not you put on your clothes? Are you not making, at best, a futile gesture, at worst, flinging yourself against something which does not exist? Is freedom more important than justice? Of what does freedom of the human spirit consist, that quality on which I place so much stress?”
—Juanita Nelson, war tax resister and nonviolent activist, August 17 1923 - March 9, 2015
