Daniel Berrigan

“Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.... The time is past when good men can remain silent, when obedience can segregate men from public risk, when the poor can die without defense.”

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

“My father had very little formal education.”