"No principle is worth the sacrifice of a…" — Daniel Berrigan
"No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being."
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36 Quotes by Daniel Berrigan
Daniel Berrigan has 36 quotes on this site.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion…
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Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and,…
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The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
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If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.
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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
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The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks,…
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Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose…
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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not…
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I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
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I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30…
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