Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.

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

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

It's not going to be easy to change things.

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.

I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.

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