"I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people."
"I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching."
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Source: Woody Klein, Roger Nash Baldwin (2006). “Liberties Lost: The Endangered Legacy of the ACLU”, p.11, Greenwood Publishing Group
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