Daniel Berrigan
Daniel Berrigan
Daniel Joseph Berrigan, S.J., was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, and poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth9 May 1921
CountryUnited States of America
peace war makers
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.
brother thinking years
I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.
trying documentaries actors
Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them
things-change easy
It's not going to be easy to change things.
issues connections spirituality
Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
theatre absurd agree
Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
father littles formal
My father had very little formal education.
order mets jesuit
I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
peace eye men
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.
favors may violence
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better
heart ass
Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at!
war ties curiosity
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.
war justice hatred
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.
peace children war
Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?