Ocupation: Author
Life: January 14, 1921 - July 30, 2006
Birthday: January 14
Death: July 30
I will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in Spain again, or, for that matter, in America, and tried to take away whatever dwindling civil liberties and human rights we retain, I would resist them with a club if I had to. But my admiration for pacifism as an outlook and a sensibility is enormous. I just find that it gets me into contradictions, as it often gets many pacifists into contradictory positions and strategies.
source: Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.
topic: Simple, America, Rights, Francisco Franco, Franco