Robert Pickus
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Robert Pickus has been a prominent figure in Quaker, pacifist, and peace
movements. He is co-author of Speak Truth to Power (American Friends Service Committee, 1955); founder of Turn Toward Peace (1961), and World Without War Council (1969); and co-author with Robert Woito of To End War: an Introduction to the Ideas, Books, Organizations, and Work That Can Help (1970)
Peace
Peace is a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility, peace also suggests the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the...
movements. He is co-author of Speak Truth to Power (American Friends Service Committee, 1955); founder of Turn Toward Peace (1961), and World Without War Council (1969); and co-author with Robert Woito of To End War: an Introduction to the Ideas, Books, Organizations, and Work That Can Help (1970)
External links
- Stephen G. Cary, Robert Pickus, et al, Speak Truth to Power: A Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence
- "Full Turn Toward Peace: Interview with Robert Pickus"
- Allen Smith, "The Renewal Movement: The Peace Testimony and Modern Quakerism"
- Gene Keyes, "Bucky and Pick: Two Grand Designers of a World Without War: An Essay-Review of Robert Pickus, To End War and R. Buckminster Fuller, Utopia or Oblivion"
- Wendy Chmielewski, “Speak Truth to Power: Religion, Race, and Sexuality, and Politics During the Cold War”