American - Clergyman | May 9, 1921 -
The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
Daniel Berrigan
DownEarthCreationRaceMilitary
I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
LifeLiveMy LifeProveJust
You can't bank on the outcome.
YouBankOutcome
I'd like to die with my boots on.
DieBootsLike
There is no 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.
PeaceDeathWarPrisonBringMaking
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
RevolutionInterestingPlagueLike
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.
SuccessDeathThinkAmericanTrap
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
ChangeLivePeaceImpossibleSeems
You just have to do what you know is right.
YouKnowRightJust
And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.
HeartBelieveGoDoneKindWill
I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.
WorldDieKnowSayMoreMean
I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
NeverOrderBeforeMetApplied
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