‘Peace movement leaders opposed the war on ‘moral and economic grounds. The North Vietnamese, they argued, were fighting 2 patriotic war to rd themselves of foreign lggressors. innocent Vietnamese peasants were being kled in the crossfire. American planes wrought environmental damage by ‘dropping ther defoliating chemicals, Salf-love was first promoted by the Beat {Generation of the 1950s and inthe eary years of the Hippie era ofthe 1960s. After witnessing the devastating consequences of World War Il and. having troops stil fighting inthe Vietnam War, \westem (especially North American) societies ‘began promoting ‘peace and love"to help {generate positive energy and to promote the preservation of dissipating environmental factors, such as the emergence of ol pipelines ‘and the recognition of poluton caused by the greenhouse effect. ‘Once America entered the war, the major peace ‘groups accepted the reversible and supported the war effort. Many peace proponents ‘supported the ideale that drew America into the war, and felt the war would bring about a better Society both domestically and internationally Carrie Chapman Catt pulled the suffragettes out (of the WPP in 1917, and encouraged women 10 ‘actively support the war effort in order to help them win the vote. Jane Addams and a few other atdent pacifists refused to sanction the war, but remained relatively silent, and Addams worked forthe Department of Food. [Administration drected by Herbert Hoover Ineach ofthe French and indian Wars, Native ‘American tibes fought elthe for France or England, During King Willams War, the Iroquois Confederacy fought for England and continued fighting France after England's peace with France n 1697. War casualties reduced the ‘oquois population by hal. n 1701, the Iroquois ‘made peace with France and decided to remain ‘neutral n future colonial confets ‘The protagonist Emest Hemingway's 1929 ‘novel A Farewell to Arms, an American soldier ing in aly during ior Wa i, grows dislusioned afters disastrous batle and deserts the army. thad made a separate peace. he declares. Hemingway also uses the linen his 1925 short stry collection in Our ‘Time, withthe character Nick saying it to a dying soldier Knowles may have chosen the title to ‘lustrate the paralle ofthe collective peace fafter war and the personal, subjective peace ‘between individuals. n this case, Gene reaches. 8 state of peace after he and Finny reconcile following the accident ‘Martin Luther King's dream was al about having peace Peace means no war, no terrorist attacks, and not fighting each other. Black people wanted to be treated fairy ust like the white people, with no segregated schools, ‘restaurants or water fountains, Martin Luther King's dream was having blacks tobe able to sit ‘wherever they wanted, even being together In schoo!