Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let … - Daniel Berrigan

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One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

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Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties. . . " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. 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, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.

Curiosity, Stand, Ties, Wake, War

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Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

Eye, Man, Meeting, Men, Peace, Starved

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

Favors, Inability, May, Thing, Total, Works

Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at!

Heart, Ass, Head, Rarely, Faith

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.

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If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.

Friday, Jesus, Looks, Wood, Look