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Hot pacifism and cold war: The American friends service committee's witness for peace in 1950s America

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Pages 173-196 | Published online: 05 Jun 2009
 

The 1955 pamphlet, Speak Truth to Power, written by a working party of the American Friends Service Committee, stands as one of the most important pacifist statements of the twentieth century. The authors of the pamphlet faced rhetorical dilemmas particular to an American audience in the mid‐1950s, which led them to adopt rhetorical strategies that have come to be characteristic of the discourse of New Class social movements.

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