American - Clergyman | May 9, 1921 -
I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.
Daniel Berrigan
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
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It's not going to be easy to change things.
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Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
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My father had very little formal education.
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Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
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The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.
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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.
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Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.
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Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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