"The Boys Who Said NO!" é o primeiro documentário a retratar os jovens que se opuseram ativamente ao alistamento militar para pôr fim à Guerra do Vietnã – a maior recusa em lutar uma guerra na história americana. O filme mostra como seus atos pessoais e coletivos de resistência não violenta, arriscando prisão e prisão federal por até 5 anos, foram uma parte crucial do movimento antiguerra, intensificando a oposição a uma guerra trágica e, por fim, forçando o fim tanto do recrutamento quanto da guerra.
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00:00We are going to win
00:05We are fighting a war
00:09I'm convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought
00:14In the history of the world
00:16The war they were asking us to fight bore no resemblance to what I thought Americans were supposed to do
00:30My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother for big powerful America
00:37And shoot them for what? They never call me nigger
00:40We have chosen to be powerless criminals in a time of criminal power
00:46Evil is a participatory phenomenon
00:50And it counts on participation in order to be successful
00:54And the first option you have is withdrawing your participation
00:57And from there it's all liberation
01:01Whatever the cost
01:02There's something happening here
01:06In less than two years, 1,400 young men have been convicted of violating the Selective Service Act
01:12Sentences had tended to be two and a half years and he gave me three
01:15These are our cards, you have our names
01:18Joe Stewart, New York
01:19Come arrest us
01:20We ourselves actually could take the step that would bring this war to an end
01:25By refusing to go, just refusing to cooperate
01:28I made the decision to return my draft card
01:31There it went
01:32Any moment, I'll be hauled off to prison
01:35And if you want to put me in jail, then you go ahead and put me in jail
01:38And that, of course, is what they did
01:40Hell no, we won't go
01:42The most encouraging thing is when a young man says no to Uncle Sam and we'll take the jail sentence
01:59Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around
02:05And what we say to a society of murder and racism is a very simple no
02:11And what we say to our brothers around this country is a very simple word
02:16That word is resist
02:17Did you have any final things to say to David before they took him away that you can tell us?
02:22Yeah, I said I love you
02:24We must continue to follow the dictates of our conscience
02:28Even if that means breaking unjust laws
02:33This was really a both individual act and a group act
02:38Most people can let themselves be heard
02:44They can stop being silent
02:47They can stop being silent