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 ( 1885 – 1967 ) was a Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist.

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.

Upon his graduation, Muste was appointed pastor of the Fort Washington Collegiate Church in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.

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.

Later in 1918 Muste moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where he was enrolled as a Quaker minister.

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 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.

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.

Even while the Lawrence textile strike was going on, Muste traveled to New York City to attend a convention of trade union activists in the textile industry.

Based upon his prominence as the head of the Lawrence textile shutdown, Muste was elected Secretary of this new union.

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.

Muste declared that any such movement must start from the bottom up through the action of organized workers if it was to survive and that it was " of the utmost importance to avoid every appearance of seeking messiahs who are to bring down a third party out of the political heavens.

According to legend, Muste stood outside the White House every night during the Vietnam War, holding a candle, regardless of whether it was raining or not.

United States Fellowship of Reconciliation ( FOR USA ) was founded in 1915 by sixty-eight pacifists, including A. J. Muste, Jane Addams and Bishop Paul Jones, and claims to be the " largest, oldest interfaith peace and justice organization in the United States.

In 1949, Lester Granger was appointed Executive Secretary and led the NUL's effort to support the March on Washington proposed by A. Phillip Randolph, Bayard Rustin and A. J. Muste to protest racial discrimination in defense work and the Armed Forces.

The group was terminated in 1934 when it merged with the American Workers Party headed by A. J. Muste to establish the Workers Party of the United States.

A. J. Muste was Chair of Manumit Associates for a number of years.

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.

* 1885 – A. J. Muste, Dutch pacifist and activist ( d. 1967 )

Muste attended Hope College in the not-accidentally-named Holland, Michigan, located just west of Grand Rapids on the coast of Lake Michigan.

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.

* A. J. Muste

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, 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 is best remembered for his work in the labor movement, pacifist movement, and the US civil rights movement.

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.

Following graduation, Muste taught Latin and Greek for the 1905-06 academic year at Northwestern Classical Academy ( now Northwestern College ) in Orange City, Iowa.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.