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 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.
believe fate hands
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.
sacrifice principles humans
No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.
congratulations thinking traps
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.
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.
men goodness bad-times
But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?
simple offers
The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.
war smart widows-and-orphans
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.
worry exit impossible
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.
friday jesus looks
If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.
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?
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.
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.
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