The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

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.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

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

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.