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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

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Daniel Berrigan
Age: 94 †
Born: 1921
Born: May 9
Died: 2016
Died: April 30
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Virginia
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