Charles Liteky
Charles Liteky
Charles James Liteky, formerly known as Angelo Liteky, was an American peace activist who served as a United States Army chaplain in the Vietnam War and was awarded the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. A Roman Catholic priest, Liteky received the award for braving intense fire to carry 20 wounded soldiers to safety during a 1967 battle. He later left the priesthood, became a
"If there is an enemy here, its violence. We need to protest and boycott violence because we eat, drink and sleep it in our country; we are entertained by it. If we dont stop, were just going to join in an unending cycle of violence, like an escalator that keeps going up and up and up."
"I consider it an honor to be going to prison as a result of an act of conscience in response to a moral imperative that impelled and obligated me to speak for the voices silenced by graduates of the School of the Americas... Were doing acts of civil disobedience in the tradition of our democracy."
"Its difficult to be an iconoclast. Its much easier to go along. Men like Liteky are people who should force us to pause and think. They should not be ostracized and criticized. They are entitled to their views, and perhaps if we listened, wed be better off."
