Q: You are a pacifist even to class struggles?
[Nearing]: I am a pacifist in that I believe that no man has a right to do violence to any other man.
Q: Even in the class struggle?
[Nearing]: Under no circumstances.

— Scott Nearing The Trial of Scott Nearing and The American Socialist Society (1919)

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