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The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.
Daniel Berrigan
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Daniel Berrigan
Age: 94 †
Born: 1921
Born: May 9
Died: 2016
Died: April 30
Catholic Priest
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Peace Activist
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Virginia
Minnesota
Daniel Joseph Berrigan
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More quotes by Daniel Berrigan
Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?
Daniel Berrigan
The God of life summons us to life more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.
Daniel Berrigan
You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
Daniel Berrigan
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
Daniel Berrigan
Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at!
Daniel Berrigan
I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
Daniel Berrigan
You can't bank on the outcome.
Daniel Berrigan
There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.
Daniel Berrigan
My father had very little formal education.
Daniel Berrigan
We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
Daniel Berrigan
No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.
Daniel Berrigan
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?
Daniel Berrigan
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
Daniel Berrigan
I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
Daniel Berrigan
It's not going to be easy to change things.
Daniel Berrigan
Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.
Daniel Berrigan
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people
Daniel Berrigan
Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
Daniel Berrigan
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
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.
Daniel Berrigan
