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
honesty integrity character
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
army order law
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.
boots dies
I'd like to die with my boots on.
outcomes
You can't bank on the outcome.
publishing
I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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.
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.
father littles formal
My father had very little formal education.
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
simple offers
The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.
peace war heart
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.
peace lying those-who-lie
The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.