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Daniel Berrigan

Daniel Joseph Berrigan SJ (May 9, 1921 – April 30, 2016) was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, and poet.

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Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties. . . " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. 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, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.

Curiosity, Stand, Ties, Wake, War

For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us travel to the Pentagon, and others live in the Bowery and serve there, and others speak unpopularly and plainly of the fate of the unborn and of convicted criminals. It is all one.

Believe, Earth, Fate, Friendship, Inherit, Plainly

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.

Makers, Making, Peace, War

Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.

Justice, Political, Preoccupation, Starvation, War

Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at!

Heart, Ass, Head, Rarely, Faith

You just have to do what you know is right.

Know, Knows, Right

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.

Corpses, Protect, Smart, Transform, War, Widows And Orphans

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 might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

Eye, Man, Meeting, Men, Peace, Starved

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

Avoids, Heal, Interesting, Revolution

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

Jesuit, Know, People, Remembered, Teacher

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.

Army, Jail, Laws, Order, Police, Virtue

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.

Community, Convicted, Felons, Right, Three

The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

Lifegivers, Lying, Peace, Powers, Summons, Those Who Lie

It's not going to be easy to change things.

Change, Easy, Things, Things Change

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

Anyway, Congratulations, Success, Thinking, Vamp, Weasels

I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.

Life, Live, Prove

You can't bank on the outcome.

Bank, Outcome, Outcomes

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

Exit, Exits, Impossible, Proceed, Worry

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

Attitude, Destroyed, Know, Permit, Religion, Utterly

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

Absurd, Agree, Theatre

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