We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial - denial of God and her nonviolence towards us, denial of love of neighbor, denial of laws essential to our being.
Philip BerriganIf you dissent without breaking the law then you are legitimizing the system that allows this kind of latitude. You have to break the law to touch the state.
Philip BerriganLying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.
Philip BerriganNuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself.
Philip Berrigan