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

No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

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

You can't bank on the outcome.

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

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 arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.