"We have one of our priests in prison……" — Daniel Berrigan
"We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons."
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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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No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.
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I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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Well begun is half done.
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