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
prove
I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
honesty integrity character
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
interesting revolution bubonic-plague
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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.
knows
You just have to do what you know is right.
attitude religion permit
I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.
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.
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.