"It is time to act in order to extinguish the destructive fires raging in the Holy Land.... Only a just peace will put end to hatred, to oppression and the suffering of so many."
Liz McAlister was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay restitution at the rate of $25 per month for the damage she and the other activists caused at the at the Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay.
Jim Forest's memoir functions as both a personal history and a snapshot of a tumultuous era in American society—the 1960s—when Forest solidified his opposition to unjust war and his faith in active nonviolence.