Larry is right. Do not presume that because a person is a conscientious objector, or even a non-cooperator, he/she is a coward. Many American COs, for example, were pioneers in the Civil Rights Movement. Read Freedom Ride by Jim Peck, a World War II CO, and you will discover that the tactics of nonviolent resistance to racial segregation were first developed by COs within the federal prison system. Many of those very same COs were later involved in the sit-ins and Freedom Rides, including Mr. Peck himself who was nearly beaten to death by a mob waiting at the bus terminal in Birmingham, Alabama.