(Sorry about how much this post rambles … I’m sure that it doesn’t look like weeks’ worth of work, but it really has taken most of my blogging time for a couple weeks. It’s been all over the place, at one point approaching 3000 words, discarded entirely, etc.. I hope that it’s worth the read, anyway …)
Originally from Quakers Are Funny, and I found it at the web site for the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum:
One World War II Quaker conscientious objector had been a professional wrestler. When he and some other inmates of the Coshocton CPS camp in Ohio made a trip into town, they were hassled about their pacifism by some local youths, who insisted that only force could change the Germans’ views.
In response, the ex-wrestler took off his coat, challenged one of the local boys to a match, and promptly threw the townie across the room. He then asked the youth, “Now do you believe that force won’t change people’s views?”
“Heck, no!” the local boy hollered back.
“That’s exactly my point,” said the Quaker, who put on his coat and left. Read the rest of this entry »
