“I am absolutely opposed to the U.S. war of aggression in Vietnam. Not only is it an unjustifiable interference hypocritically carried on in the name of "freedom" while in fact its purpose is to further the strategic ends of a government whose enormous power has destroyed the morality of its members; but it is being waged by means of atrocities.... Violence always breeds more violence and is never a solution even when it temporarily seems so. Violence of this magnitude, even if the ultimate holocaust it is swiftly leading to is averted -- i.e., if we at least stop in time to avoid a still larger war -- promises a dreadful future for America, full of people tortured and distorted with the knowledge (conscious or unconscious) of what we have done.”