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

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.

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

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

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

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

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.