conscientious objector
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He declared himself a conscientious objector during World War II. He was imprisoned, abandoned by his family and returned to Birmingham only to be further ostracized.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
In 1985, as the Year of the Pacific approached, the ship’s captain was Peter Willcox, a lifelong seaman and conscientious objector from Vietnam who’d devoted his career to environmental action on the oceans.
From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025
Gumbleton said if he were a young man drafted into U.S. military service at that time he would go to jail or even leave the country if turned down as a conscientious objector.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2024
In the postwar 1950s, when being sensitive, responsible and a “nice guy” were important attributes in a young man, Mr. Murray was a churchgoing pacifist who became a conscientious objector during the Korean War.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024
When they gave me a form to fill out, I wrote in the appropriate places that I was a Muslim, and that I was a conscientious objector.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
