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We the Resistance:

Documenting Our History of Nonviolent Protest

Introduced and Edited

by Michael G. Long

Introduction: Making America Resistant

ONE

The Roots of Resistance

Religious Oppression

We Cannot Condemn Quakers (1657)

Edward Hart

Redeemed of Wars (1672)

John Tilton and Others

I Felt a Scruple (1756)

Joshua Evans

Unjustly Taxed (1774)

Isaac Backus

Slavery

Buy Slaves to Free Them (1693)

George Keith

I am but a poor SLave (1723)

Anonymous Slave

Indian Removal and Extermination

I Have No King (1727)

Loron Sauguaarum

Not One Single Inch (1752)

Atiwaneto

Taxation Without Representation

The People Are the Proper Judge (1750)

Jonathan Mayhew

Tea Overboard (1773)

George Hewes

No Money for the Revolutionary War (1776, 1797)

Job Scott

Grant Us Relief from Taxation (1780)

John Cuffe and Others

TWO

Abolishing Slavery

Black Resistance

Like Sheep for Slaughter (1788)

Elizabeth Freeman and Prince Hall

They Do Not Consider Us as Men (1813)

John Fortren

Are We Men? (1829)

David Walker

The Fifth of July (1832)

Peter Osbourne

I Won’t Obey It! (1850)

Jermaine Wesley Loguen

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852)

Frederick Douglass

He Took Hold of Me and I Took Hold of the Window Sash (1854)

Elizabeth Jennings

The Next Thing to Hell (1856)

Harriet Tubman

White Resistance

Women Overthrowing Slavery (1836)

Angelina Grimke

Escape on the Pearl (1848)

Donald Drayton

Resistance to Civil Government (1849)

Henry David Thoreau

Was John Brown Justified? (1859)

William Lloyd Garrison

THREE

Protesting Early Wars

The War of 1812 and the Civil War

A Manifestly Unjust War (1812)

Boston Committee

The Slavery of the Sword (1861)

Alfred Love

Indian Removal and White Man’s Wars

The Audacious Practices of Unprincipled Men (1836)

Chief John Ross

Kiss the Foot That Crushes Us? (1842)

Colored People’s Press

The Negro Will Be Exterminated Soon Enough (1898)

Henry McNeal Turner

Hypocrisy of the Most Sickening Kind (1899)

Lewis H. Douglass

FOUR

Striking Against Industrialists

Petition for a Ten-Hour Workday (1845)

Sarah Bagley

Petition Against Terrorism (1871)

Colored National Labor Union

Will You Organize? (1877)

Albert Parsons

We Have 4,000 Men (1891)

Black Waterfront Workers of Savannah

A Petition in Boots (1894)

James Coxey

George Pullman, Ulcer on the Body Politic (1894)

Pullman Workers

The Wail of the Children (1903)

Mother Jones

The Uprising of the 20,000 (1909)

Clara Lemlich

Wage Slavery (1912)

Textile Workers of Lawrence, Massachusetts

FIVE

The Early Fight for Women’s Rights

The Right to Vote

All Men and Women Are Created Equal (1848)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Others

Strong as Any Man (1851)

Sojourner Truth

I Return My Tax Bill (1858)

Lucy Stone

Amend the Constitution (1866)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Others

Robbed of Citizenship (1873)

Susan B. Anthony

Why Women Want to Vote (1913)

Anna Howard Shaw

The Paramount Political Issue (1915)

Women’s Voter Convention

The Lucretia Mott Amendment (1923)

Alice Paul

The Right to Sex and Love

Protest of Marriage (1855)

Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell

I Am a Free Lover (1871)

Victoria C. Woodhull

Sexual Love Is Not Exclusive (1878)

Ezra Heywood

A Rapture So Exquisite (1900)

Ida C. Craddock

Marriage and Love Have Nothing in Common (1910)

Emma Goldman

What Every Woman Needs to Know (1922)

Margaret Sanger

SIX

World War I

I Pledge Myself Against Enlistment (1915)

Tracy Mygatt and the Anti-Enlistment League

I Denounce the Governing Class (1915)

Kate Richards O’Hare

Strike Against War (1916)

Helen Keller

The Darker Races and Avaricious Capitalists (1917)

A.Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen

A Deliberate Violator (1918)

Roger N. Baldwin

The Children’s Crusade for Amnesty (1922)

Kate Richards O’Hare and Frank O’Hare

SEVEN

Battling the Great Depression

A Bolshevik Revolution in Lawrence? (1919)

A.J. Muste

The Usual Policy of Terrorism (1919)

William Z. Foster

Don’t Starve! Organize! (1932)

Ford Hunger Marchers

Camping for the Bonus Check (1932)

Bonus Army Veterans

We Poor Peoples Need You (1935)

Anonymous Sharecropper

Death Watch (1935)

League of the Physically Handicapped

The Flynt Sit-Down Strike (1937)

United Auto Workers

Cracking and Shelling and Striking (1938)

Emma Zepeda Tenayuca and the Texas Pecan Shellers Union

EIGHT

World War II

War Shall Be Illegal (1926)

Women’s Peace Union

Students Strike Against War (1935)

Joseph P. Lash

Jim Crow and National Defense (1941)

A.Philip Randolph

I Cannot Honorably Participate (1943)

Robert Lowell

I Must Resist (1943)

Bayard Rustin

The Internment of Japanese Citizens (1944)

Fred Korematsu and Frank Murphy

A Racist Charge of Mutiny (1944)

Thurgood Marshall

Against Dropping Atomic Bombs on Japan (1945)

Leo Szilard

Judgment on Jubilation (1945)

Dorothy Day

NINE

The Civil Rights Movement

Preparing the Way

Human Holocaust Under the Stars and Stripes (1909)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

We March for the Butchered Dead (1917)

Charles Martin and the Negro Silent Protest Parade

We Return Fighting (1919)

We Demand Complete Control (1920)

Marcus Garvey

Communists for the Scottsboro Boys (1933)

Thomas Stamm

Jim Crow in the Armed Forces (1948)

Bayard Rustin

Another Historic Supreme Court Decision (1952)

Thurgood Marshall and Others

The Lynching of Emmett Till (1955)

Paul Robeson

Dogs, Cats, and Colored People (1955)

George Grant

From Rosa Parks to the Poor People’s Campaign

Don’t Ride the Bus (1955)

Jo Ann Gibson Robinson

We Shall Have to Lead Our People to You (1957)

Southern Negro Leaders Conference

The Racist Policy of Apartheid (1957)

George Houser and the American Committee on Africa

More Than a Hamburger (1960)

Ella Baker

We’re Going to Keep Coming (1961)

Jim Zwerg

A Living Petition (1963)

Bayard Rustin

I Call Now for an Uprising (1963)

Bayard Rustin

I Didn’t Try to Register for You (1964)

Fannie Lou Hamer

Alabama Negroes Are “Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired” (No Date)

No Name

The Right to Throw Off Such Government (1966)

Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

Economic and Social Bill of Rights (1968)

Bayard Rustin

TEN

Atomic Bombs and the Vietnam War

ICBMs and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Statement on Omaha Action (1955)

Marjorie Swann

An Appeal by Government Scientists (1958)

Linus Pauling

Openly Against Civil Defense (TBA)

Women Strike for Peace

President Kennedy, Be Careful (TBA)

Women Strike for Peace

Ring Around the Pentagon (1972)

Women Strike for Peace

Hell No, We Won’t Go

March on Washington to End the Vietnam War (1965)

Students for a Democratic Society

A Draft for the Freedom Fight in the US (1965)

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority (1967)

Marcus Raskin and Arthur Waskow

Our Apologies, Good Friends (1968)

Daniel Berrigan and the Catonsville Nine

Stop Dow and Napalm (1969)

University of Michigan Students

For the People (1970)

National Chicano Moratorium Committee

If the Government Doesn’t Stop the War, We Will Stop the Government (1971)

Mayday Tribe

ELEVEN

The Expanding Civil Rights Movement

Red Power

Fish-Ins (1964)

Janet McCloud

The Occupation of Alcatraz (1969)

Indians of All Tribes

The Occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (1972)

American Indian Movement

The Occupation of Wounded Knee (1973)

Red Tide Students

The Longest Walk (1978)

American Indian Movement

Chicano Power

La Huelga and La Causa Is Our Cry (1966)

Dolores Huerta

BLOWOUTS—BABY—BLOWOUTS!! (1968)

Chicano Students in East Los Angeles

El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan (1969)

First National Chicano Liberation Youth Conference

To Resist with Every Ounce (1969)

Cesar Chavez

Hasta Le Victoria Siempre! (1970)

Young Lords

Le Marcha de la Reconquista (1971)

Rosalio Munoz and the Chicano Moratorium Committee

Yellow Power

The Yellow Power Movement (1969)

Amy Uyematsu

The Right to Assert Our Yellow Identity (1969)

Asian American Political Alliance

From Colonies to Communities (1969)

Asian Community Center

Gay Power

Ejected from Dewey’s (1965)

Janus Society

Homosexuals March on the White House (1965)

Frank Kameny

Young Homos Picket Compton’s (1966)

Vanguard

Christopher Street Liberation Day (1970)

Gay Liberation Front

Women Power

Underground Abortion (1969)

Jane

We Call on All Our Sisters (1969)

Redstockings

Women Power (1970)

Bella Abzug and the Third World Alliance

Welfare Is a Women’s Issue (1972)

Johnnie Tilmon

Speak-Out Against Sexual Harassment (1975)

Working Women United and Others

Disability Power

Sitting Against Nixon (1972)

Judy Heumann

The Vegetables Are Rising (1977)

Ed Roberts

Deaf President Now (1988)

Gallaudet Students

TWELVE

Environmental Justice and Animal Liberation

Saving Earth

Earth Day (1970)

Gaylord Nelson

I Can Find No Natural Balance with a Nuclear Plant (1975)

Sam Lovejoy

Oppose, Resist, Subvert (1981)

Edward Abbey

Occupy the Forest (1985)

Earth Firsters

Nuclear Waste on Our Homeland (1995)

Lower Colorado River Tribes

Freeing the Animals

Rescuing the Monkeys (1981)

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

A Necessary Fuss (1984)

Animal Liberation Front

Don’t Call Avon (1989)

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

The Hegins Pigeon Shoot (1996)

Fund for Animals

THIRTEEN

The Nuclear Arms Race, Central America, and the Gulf War

Anti-Nuclear Campaigns

Declaration of Nuclear Resistance (1976)

Clamshell Alliance

Making the World Truly Safe (1979)

Randall Forsberg

Unity Statement (1980)

Grace Paley

The Wars in Central America

We Join in Covenant to Provide Sanctuary (1982)

Bay Area Sanctuary Movement

Against the War in Central America (1983)

David Cortright

The Illegal Invasion of Panama (1989)

Matthew Rothschild

The Gulf War

An Attack Against People of Color (1990)

Azania Howse

I Will Resist (1990)

Jeff Paterson

Unjustifiable Destruction (1991)

Ramsey Clark

FOURTEEN

The Expanding Movement

for Gay Rights and Women’s Rights

Lesbian and Gay Rights

I Am Proud to Raise My Voice Today (1979)

Audre Lorde

The Right to Lesbian and Gay Sex (1987)

The March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights

We Take That Fire and Make It Our Own (1993)

The Lesbian Avengers

The AIDS Crisis

You Could Be Dead in Five Years (1987)

ACT UP

Why We Fight (1988)

Vito Russo

Sexual Harassment, Abortion, and Black Women

Clarence Thomas, Sexual Harasser (1991)

Anita Hill

March for Women’s Lives (1992)

Patricia Ireland and Faye Wattleton

The Million Woman March (1997)

Phile Chionesu and Asia Coney

FIFTEEN

Defending Labor and Immigrants

You Are Not Alone (1981)

Lane Kirkland

Boycotting Shell (1986)

United Mineworkers of America

Globalization Without Representation (1999)

People for Fair Trade

No Sweatshops (1999)

SOLE

Latino March on Washington (1996)

Coordinadora 96

SIXTEEN

The War on Terror

Isn’t This Really About Oil? (2002)

Medea Benjamin

Calling All Americans to Resist War and Repression (2002)

Not in Our Name

Let the Virtual March Begin (2003)

Win Without War

Bring Our Troops Home (2005)

Cindy Sheehan

Shut Down Creech (2016)

Anti-Drone Activists

SEVENTEEN

Making the New Century Resistant

Mining, Pipelines, and Climate Warming

End Mountaintop Removal (2010)

Appalachia Rising

The Biggest Carbon Bomb in North America (2011)

Tar Sands Action

Together, We Rise (2017)

Dave Archambault

And So We Resist Climate Warming (2017)

Bill McKibben

LGBT Rights to Serve and Marry

Chained to Serve Openly (2010)

Get EQUAL

A Rogue Clerk and the Failed Defense of Marriage (2013)

Shaking Booties for Mike Pence (2017)

WERK for Peace

Targeting Transgender Troops (2017)

Human Rights Campaign

Reasserting the Power of Women

Every Feminist Is an Organizer (2004)

Dolores Huerta

Our Pussies Ain’t for Grabbin’ (2017)

The Women’s March and America Ferrera

Fearless Girl (2017)

Susan Cox

Occupying Wall Street and Washington

Killing Big Insurance (2009)

Mobilization for Health Care for All

Occupy, I Love You (2011)

Naomi Klein

Moral Mondays (2013)

William Barber II

Time to Withdraw Big Money from Politics (2016)

Democracy Spring and Democracy Uprising

Freeing Slaves in Prison (2016)

Support Prisoner Resistance

Not Our President (2017)

John Lewis and Others

Dying for Health Care (2017)

ADAPT

Legalizing Immigrants

We Want a Legalization Process (2006)

Luis Gutierrez, Gloria Romero, and Others

DREAMers Stop Deportation Bus (2013)

United We Dream

Protect the Rights of Immigrants (2017)

American Civil Liberties Union

We Pledge to Resist for Immigrants (2017)

Alison Harrington

Trump Seems to Have Made Me an Alien (2017)

Mo Farah

Black Lives Matter

Our Son Is Your Son (2012)

Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fountain

Riding to Ferguson (2014)

Black Lives Matter

Murder in Charlottesville (2017)

TBA

March on Washington for Racial Justice (2017)

TBA

Conclusion: Where to Resist from Here?

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About the Author

Michael G. Long is the author or editor of numerous books on civil rights, religion, and politics, includingWe the Resistance: Documenting A History of Nonviolent Protest in the United States;Race Man: Selected Works of Julian Bond;I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters;Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall; andFirst Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson.Long has written for the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, ESPN's The Undefeated, and USA Today, and his work has been featured or reviewed in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, and many others. Long has spoken at Fenway Park, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, and the National Archives, and he has appeared on MSNBC, PBS, C-SPAN, and National Public Radio.

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"We the Resistance: Documenting a History of Nonviolent Protest in the United States is an anthology of first-person accounts from individuals who had the courage to resist injustice through nonviolent means, from the pre-Revolutionary War era to modern times. From the Abolitionist movement, to strikes and other efforts to resist unjust labor practices, to the struggle for women's rights, LGBT rights, the anti-globalization movement, and more, these writings detail America's rich history of protest and fighting without weapons to make the nation a better place. Erudite and inspirational, We the Resistance is highly recommended, especially for personal, public, and college library American History collections."