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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 18 juni 1840 / Time Line June 18, 1840

17. juni 1840, 19. juni 1840

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The Oberlin Non-Resistance Society was formed at the Ohio university by students who believed “that the Gospel of Jesus Christ inculcates the duty of peace and good-will.” They were inspired by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison’s New England group of the same name. They rejected all use of violence even in the name of duty to country. “we must submit to the ‘powers that be,’ and ‘obey magistrates,’ except when their requirements conflict with God’s laws; when we are meekly to endure the penalty of disobedience ‘threatening them not.’ ” Though denounced by the faculty and ignored by the student newspaper, the group was just the first in a succession of peace organizations at Oberlin.
Litteratur: Constitution of the Oberlin Non-Resistance Society Formed June 18th, 1840. - 16 s.
http://pacs.nonresistance.org/nonresistance.pdf

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