"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."
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Fighting the Lamb's War: Skirmishes with the American Empire (1996), p. 204
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Philip Berrigan
1923 – 2002
US-amerikanischer Friedensaktivist und römisch-katholischer Priester
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