We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means … - Philip Berrigan

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Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down.

Philip Berrigan

We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial - denial of God and her nonviolence towards us, denial of love of neighbor, denial of laws essential to our being.

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