Uncommon Martyrs
The Plowshares Movement and the Catholic Left
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“Plowshare activists are for more dangerous to the US government than any rapist or murderer or terrorist. Because we are promoting nonviolence.”
-Jean Gump, imprisoned for a plowshare action“What is clear throughout, however, is that members of Plowshares are willing to risk alienation, physical injury, the rupture of relationships and prison, and, as Wilcox observes, like heroes of the past, ‘they are greatly hated and feared while they live, a fate reserved for all uncommon martyrs’.”
-Hudson Valley Writers GuildAbout the Author
Fred A. Wilcox is the author of Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange, and Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam. He co-authored Phillip Berrigan’s autobiography, Fighting the Lamb’s War: Skirmishes with the American Empire. Chasing Shadows: Memoirs of a Sixties Survivor chronicles the years Wilcox spent homeless on New York City’s Lower East Side.