Daniel Berrigan Quotes About Peace
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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
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The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.
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Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.
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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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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?
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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.
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