> #Muste believed, with #Gandhi, that “unjust laws and practices survive because men #obey them and conform to them. This they do out of #fear. There are things they dread more than the continuance of the #evil.” He enriched half a century of American history with a personal commitment to these simple truths.
https://chomsky.info/196709__/
#AJMuste

> Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.. His essays are invariably thoughtful and provocative; his life, however, is an inspiration with hardly a parallel in twentieth-century America. #USA
#NoamChomsky writes of #Muste #AJMuste who I keep confusing with #EugeneDebs..

> #AJMuste explained.. revolutionary #nonviolence that was the guiding principle of an extraordinary life. “In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a #pacifist.” “There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to ‘social #peace,’ though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem.. secure.
https://chomsky.info/196709__/

> Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth... and power.. from a social system based on violence.. identify themselves ...with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help.. by life than by words — to devise a more excellent way... of social progress less brutal... than mankind has yet evolved. --- #AJMuste
> A. J. Muste... can be measured by such standards as these. -- #NoamChomsky

- https://chomsky.info/196709__/

#LewisMumford respects #AlbertSchwietzer in the same way.