Daniel Berrigan Quotes

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• I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
• I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
• I'd like to die with my boots on.
• Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
• My father had very little formal education.
• You can't bank on the outcome.
• You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
• You just have to do what you know is right.
• The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.
• Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you…
• Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war,…
• There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at…
• Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living…
• And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart,…
• I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.
• It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was…

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