A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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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.Daniel Berrigan
I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.
Daniel Berrigan
We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
Daniel Berrigan
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
Daniel Berrigan
You have to sacrifice yourself. I don't want to make a big deal about it, but you have to pay your dues. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Daniel Berrigan
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