Quotes from Philip Berrigan

I can't be a man in this society unless I am in opposition to power. So, resistance is always synonymous with humanity.

Of this I am at least sure: Hope is nonviolent resistance, rebellion, and revolution. It has always been so, though never hast the lesson been so forcefully taught. And this is hopeful.

I'm not for organizations much - they seem to run people more than people run them.

The revolution of blood is a necessary historical process.' The people who say that it is NOT inevitable are the only ones who, to my mind, understand revolution. In other words, the only ones who understand revolution are the ones who say that a nonviolent revolution is possible.

Nuclear 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.

The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.

Lying 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.