"The United States must be compelled to get out of Vietnam immediately and without conditions."
Bertrand Russell

"Let peace-minded persons and organizations
in every state of the United States
and in every country of the world
devise ways to call for an end to military intervention
in Vietnam as a first imperative step
to ending the threat of nuclear war
and bringing justice freedom and peace to mankind."
A. J. Muste

"This war turns the clock of history back
and perpetuates white colonialism.
The greatest irony and tragedy of it all
is that our own nation which initiated so much
of the revolutionary spirit in this modern world
is now cast in the mold of being an arch anti-revolutionary."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I went to Vietnam a hard charging Marine 2nd Lieutenant,
sure that I had answered the plea of a victimized
in their struggle against communist aggression.
That belief lasted about two weeks.
Instead of fighting communist aggressors
I found that 90% of the time our military actions
were directed against the people of South Vietnam.
These people had little sympathy
or for that matter knowledge of the Saigon Government.
We are engaged in a war in South Vietnam
to pound a people into submission to a government
that has little or no popular support
among the real people of South Vietnam.
By real people I mean all those Vietnamese people
who aren't war profiteers or who have not sold out
to their government or the United States
because it was the easy and/or profitable thing to do."
letter to Senator Fulbright

"Obviously a major lesson of Vietnam
is that we must know ourselves better."
Daniel Ellsberg