Staughton Craig Lynd, is an American conscientious objector, Quaker, peace activist and civil rights activist, tax resister, historian, professor, author and lawyer, his involvement in social justice causes has brought him into contact with some of the nation's most influential activists, including which American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, and poet?
Staughton Lynd Staughton Craig Lynd (born November 22, 1929) is an American conscientious objector, Quaker, peace activist and civil rights activist, tax resister, historian, professor, author and lawyer. His involvement in social justice causes has brought him into contact with some of the nation's most influential activists, including Howard Zinn, Tom Hayden and Daniel Berrigan. Lynd's contribution to the cause of social justice and the peace movement is chronicled in Carl Mirra's biography, "The Admirable Radical: Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945–1970", published in 2010 by Kent State University Press.
John Dear John Dear (born August 15, 1959) is an American Catholic priest, Christian pacifist, author and lecturer, and a former member of the Society of Jesus. He has been arrested over 75 times in acts of nonviolent civil disobedience against war, injustice and nuclear weapons as part of his "consistent ethic of nonviolence". Dear has been nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize, in January 2008 by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and most recently with Leo Rebello for the 2015 award.