Manifesto
Emma Goldman and the members of her league published a piece of literature known as the No Conscription League manifesto. This document goes in great detail about the freedoms that we have as Americans, and how the government is oppressing our certain unalienable rights. She urges the nation for support and promotes that we need to protect and fight for our liberty as citizens. This pamphlet went into circulation with over 100,000 printed, which caused fear in the eyes of the US government. The following is the platform on which the league is founded, taken from the manifesto itself, " We oppose conscription because we are internationalists, anti-militarists, and opposed to all wars waged by capitalistic governments. We will fight for what we choose to fight for; we will never fight simply because we are ordered to fight. We believe that the militarization of America is an evil that far outweighs, in its anti-social and anti-libertarian effects, any good that may come from America's participation in the war. We will resist conscription by every means in our power, and we will sustain those who, for similar reasons, refuse to be conscripted."
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