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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
Daniel Berrigan
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Daniel Berrigan
Age: 94 †
Born: 1921
Born: May 9
Died: 2016
Died: April 30
Catholic Priest
Hiv Activist
Peace Activist
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Priest
Theologian
University Teacher
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Virginia
Minnesota
Daniel Joseph Berrigan
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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.
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No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.
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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?
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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It's not going to be easy to change things.
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