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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I don’t have to prove my life. I just have to live.

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• 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.

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• I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

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• I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

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• I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

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• I’d like to die with my boots on.

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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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• One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

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• Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

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• 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.

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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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• The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they’re the least remembered people.

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• 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.

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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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Daniel Berrigan (24)

Birth:	9th May, 1921
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Poet, Priest, Professor

About

Daniel J. Berrigan was born in Virginia, Minnesota. He is an American priest, peace activist and poet. In 1957 he was appointed professor of New Testament studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. That same year, he won the Lamont Prize for his book of poems, Time Without Number. He appears briefly in the 1986 Warner Bros. film, The Mission, playing a Jesuit priest, and also served as a consultant on the film. He is also an anti-abortion activist and opponent of capital punishment, a contributing editor of Sojourners Magazine, and a supporter of the Occupy movement.

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