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Muste later recalled of his fellow Reformed Dutch Church members that they were " all Republicans and would no more have voted for a Democrat than turned horse thief.
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Muste and later
Muste would later claim that he never again voted for a Republican or Democrat for a major national or state office.
Muste and Reformed
In the fall of 1906, Muste went East to the Theological Seminary of the Dutch Reformed Church, today known as the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, located in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
While he remained in training to become a minister of the Reformed Church, retrospectively it seems that Muste began to first question the church's fundamental principles at this time.
Muste remained as pastor of the Fort Washington Collegiate Church on Washington Heights until 1914 when he left the Reformed Church because he no longer ascribed to the Westminster Confession of Faith, the set of fundamental principles of the denomination.
Muste and Dutch
* 1885 – A. J. Muste, Dutch pacifist and activist ( d. 1967 )
Muste and Church
Upon his graduation, Muste was appointed pastor of the Fort Washington Collegiate Church in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.
Thereafter, Muste became a independent Congregationalist minister, accepting a pastorate at the Central Congregational Church of Newtonville, Massachusetts in February 1915.
Muste and members
In 1966, Muste traveled with members of the Committee for Non-Violent Action to Saigon and Hanoi.
A. J. Muste wrote him back asking him about money to fund it and how they would get members.
Muste and they
Muste and Bertrand Russell, admired and praised Kahn's work, because they felt it presented a strong case for full disarmament by suggesting that nuclear war was all but unavoidable.
Muste and Karl H. Meyer, the son of Vermont Senator William Meyer, were arrested and handcuffed as they climbed the fence to invade the site.
Muste and were
" Despite the efforts of agent provocateurs to inspire violence, Muste and the strike committee were able to avoid the outbreak of violence which would have served to discredit the strikers and their objective and give cause for the physical suppression of the labor action.
Muste and all
Through it all Muste continued to work as a labor activist, leading the victorious Toledo Auto-Lite strike of 1934.
Muste and would
Muste spoke to assembled workers, assured them that he would lend whatever help he could in raising money for the relief of strikers and their families, and was soon invited to become executive secretary of the ad hoc strike committee established by the still unorganized workers.
Muste would serve as head of that fledgling union for two years, finally stepping down from the post in 1921.
Muste and no
As the means so the end ...” A contemporary quote sometimes attributed to Gandhi, but also to A. J. Muste, sums it up: ' There is no way to peace ; peace is the way.
Muste was himself pulled from the picket line as a strike leader, isolated, and clubbed by police, who eventually deposited him in a wagon and hauled him to jail when he could no longer stand.
Muste and more
Muste became the spokesman for some 30, 000 striking workers, hailing from more than 20 countries.
After a week behind bars, the case against Muste for allegedly disturbing the peace was dismissed ; the strike continued without interruption, despite the jailing of Muste and more than 100 strikers.
Muste and for
Muste is best remembered for his work in the labor movement, pacifist movement, and the US civil rights movement.
Muste's father, Martin Muste, was a coachman who drove for a family that was part of Zeeland's hereditary nobility.
At Hope College Muste was class valedictorian, captain of the school's basketball team, and played second base for the baseball squad.
Following graduation, Muste taught Latin and Greek for the 1905-06 academic year at Northwestern Classical Academy ( now Northwestern College ) in Orange City, Iowa.
Muste was influenced by the prevalent theology of the social gospel began to read the written ideas of various radical thinkers of the day, going so far as to vote for Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs for President of the United States in 1912.
Following his resignation, Muste did volunteer work for Boston chapter of the newly established Civil Liberties Bureau, a legal aid organization which defended both political and pacifist war resisters.
Muste received use of a home and money for expenses in exchange for pastoral services.
In 1929 Muste attempted to organize radical unionists opposed to the passive policies of American Federation of Labor president William Green under the banner of an organization called the Conference for Progressive Labor Action ( CPLA ).
Muste also was a member of the League for Independent Political Action ( LIPA ), a group of liberals and socialists headed by philosopher John Dewey which sought the establishment of a new labor-based third party.
In 1956, he and A. J. Muste founded the magazine Liberation, as a forum for the non-Marxist left, similar to Dissent.
A. J. Muste was Chair of Manumit Associates for a number of years.
Muste and .
* A. J. Muste
Muste, Robert Pickus, and Bayard Rustin.
Muste, forming the Workers Party of the United States.
* A. J. Muste
In 1941, he, Bayard Rustin, and A. J. Muste proposed a march on Washington to protest racial discrimination in war industries and to propose the desegregation of the American Armed forces.
" Muste ( 1885 – 1967 ) was a Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist.
Muste was born January 8, 1885 in the small port city of Zierikzee, located in the Southwestern province of Zeeland in the Netherlands.
With his economic prospects limited in Holland, Martin Muste decided to follow four of his wife Adriana's brothers to emigration in America, making the cross-Atlantic trip as Third Class passengers in January 1891.
Muste attended Hope College in the not-accidentally-named Holland, Michigan, located just west of Grand Rapids on the coast of Lake Michigan.
later and recalled
" The Caplins were dirt poor, and Capp later recalled stories of his mother going out in the night to sift through ash barrels for reusable bits of coal.
The loveless environment made Bernard something of a bully, as he himself later recalled " I was a dreadful little boy.
Noticing a rush of horsemen fast approaching from the south, he later recalled – " … I went towards the nearest of these squadrons to instruct their officer, but instead of being listened to was immediately surrounded and called upon to ask for quarter.
Years later, Pasternak recalled that he was horrified at how the conversation had ended.
Ivinskaya later recalled, " He phoned almost everyday and, instinctively fearing to meet or talk with him, yet dying of happiness, I would stammer out that I was " busy today.
Ivinskaya later recalled, " But I became so ill through loss of blood that she and Luisa had to get me to the hospital, and I not longer remember exactly what passed between me and this heavily built, strong-minded woman, who kept repeating how she didn't give a damn for our love and that, although she no longer loved Leonidovich herself, she would not allow her family to be broken up.
" Corporal Collins later recalled that, after Wegener's death, Herbert threw a revolver in the German captain's face and screamed, " What about the Lusitania, you bastard!
" I did two songs and he got mad ," Bo Diddley later recalled.
He later recalled " a simple scheme that enabled us to pull several matches out of the fire " during the 1934 – 35 season: when the team was in trouble " the centre-half was to forsake his defensive role and go up into the attack to add weight to the five forwards.
He later recalled the moving map of the " America of Tomorrow " exhibit: " It showed beautiful highways and cloverleaves and little General Motors cars all carrying people to skyscrapers, buildings with lovely spires, flying buttresses — and it looked great!
In later years, Cézanne also recalled this period and referred to Pissarro as “ the first Impressionist ”.
Fausto Rodriguez, a young messenger, later recalled that Captain Russell came in and ordered Bacardi ( Gold ) rum and Coca-Cola on ice with a wedge of lime.
His reply, recalled by Caesar of Heisterbach, a fellow Cistercian, thirty years later was ""—" Kill them all, the Lord will recognise His own.
For example, George Grosz later recalled that his Dadaist art was intended as a protest " against this world of mutual destruction.
Diana Ross later recalled Sullivan's forgetfulness during the many occasions The Supremes performed on his show.
He later recalled that his first impressions of Chicago were that of grimy neighborhoods, crowded streets, and disappointing architecture, yet he was determined to find work.
In his later years, Hayek recalled a discussion of philosophy with Wittgenstein, when both were officers during World War I.
Years later, Blair mordantly recalled his prep school in the essay " Such, Such Were the Joys ", claiming among other things that he " was made to study like a dog " to earn a scholarship, which he alleged was solely to enhance the school's prestige with parents.
Cukor later recalled, " Her talent was apparent, but she did buck at direction.
This episode was later recalled as an example of " speaking truth to power ", a preaching technique by which subsequent Quakers hoped to influence the powerful.
He recalled later, " At eighteen, war was great stuff.
He later recalled the long periods of time he spent in the area:
His sister recalled that Booth wrote down the palm-reader's prediction and showed it to his family and others, often discussing its portents in moments of melancholy in later years.
A former teacher later recalled that Ribbentrop " was the most stupid in his class, full of vanity and very pushy ".
One German diplomat later recalled that " Ribbentrop didn't understand anything about foreign policy.
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