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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

Daniel Berrigan

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, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

Daniel Berrigan

The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.

Daniel Berrigan

Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.... The time is past when good men can remain silent, when obedience can segregate men from public risk, when the poor can die without defense.

Daniel Berrigan

There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.

Daniel Berrigan

I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.

Daniel Berrigan

Daniel Berrigan

Daniel Berrigan

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Born: May 9, 1921

Died: April 30, 2016 (aged 94)

Bio: Daniel J. Berrigan, S.J., is an American Catholic priest, counterculture peace activist, and poet.

Known for:

To Dwell in Peace (1987)
Essential Writings (2009)
And the risen bread (1998)
The Kings and Their Gods (2008)
The Raft Is Not the Shore (1975)

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