It is presumptively wrong to do violence to innocent persons. - Robert L. Holmes

We will never know whether there is a realistic moral alternative to violence unless we are willing to explore the potential of nonviolent action.

A necessary condition of the justifiable pursuit of any objectives in war by any means whatever.. is that one be justified in engaging in such killing and violence in the first place.

To be a pragmatic pacifist, one need only consider that large-scale, organized, and systemic war violence is unacceptable in today's world.