Peace Now! Great American Pacifists
First episode of the new podcast, which will devote an episode each to figures such as Lucretia Mott, William Lloyd Garrison, Dorothy Day, Bayard Rustin, and Judith Butler.
Peace Now! Great American Pacifists
Adin Ballou: System-Builder and Influencer for Peace
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Little Crispy
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Season 1
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Episode 6
One of the fundamental influences on Tolstoy (with whom he corresponded), and hence on Gandhi and King, Ballou (1803-1890) gave much more careful and elaborate accounts of non-resistance than most of his contemporaries.
Also, he completely destroyed social contract theory.