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272:List of peace activists
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162:at the outbreak of the
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996:Soldiers are murderers
389:Anti-war organizations
291:Ladd, William (1840).
227:American Peace Society
211:The Harbinger of Peace
203:American Peace Society
198:as a memorial to war.
122:American Peace Society
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970:Nonviolent resistance
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63:Exeter, New Hampshire
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217:) from his house in
192:Bunker Hill Monument
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898:Counter-recruitment
893:Conflict resolution
883:Central Park be-ins
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30:William Ladd
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1214:Netherlands
1087:Vietnam War
1077:World War I
948:Human Be-In
685:World peace
650:Nonviolence
615:Finvenkismo
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509:Peaceworker
215:The Calumet
164:War of 1812
146:New England
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1194:Costa Rica
980:Peace walk
792:Peace News
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655:Pacificism
645:Nonkilling
559:Anarchism
548:Ideologies
464:Peace camp
315:References
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55:1778-05-10
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918:Desertion
404:Code Pink
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555:Ahimsa
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