"We have assumed the name of peacemakers, but we have been, by and large, unwilling to pay any significant price. And 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. So a whole will and a whole heart and a whole national life bent toward war prevail over the mere desire for peace…" -
"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
FBI Records: The Vault — Daniel Berrigan
One of the great chases was the hunt for Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J. who was sought for his role in planning a citizens arrest of Henry Kissinger as a war criminal. A fate the K richly deserved, instead of the Nobel Peace Prize which he actually got, in 1973 As architect of Nixon's "peace with honor" strategy he ordered the Christmas terror bombing of Hanoi. He was awarded the prize with Vietnamese Premier Le Duc Tho, who refused to accept the prize.
RIP Daniel Berrigan, poet and man of peace.
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