Professor William Kaplan, who wrote a book entitled State and Salvation: The Jehovah’s Witnesses and Their Fight for Civil Rights, said that the “Witnesses were publicly reviled and the object of both state action and private attacks by an intolerant government and an openly hostile citizenry caught up in the passions and patriotism of the war. ”
Profesor William Kaplan, yang menulis buku berjudul State and Salvation: The Jehovah’s Witnesses and Their Fight for Civil Rights, mengatakan bahwa ” Saksi - Saksi dicerca di hadapan umum dan menjadi sasaran aksi negara maupun serangan pribadi oleh pemerintah yang tidak toleran dan warga yang terang - terangan memusuhi mereka karena dibakar oleh nafsu dan patriotisme perang ”.