“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.” IfsMeanRealChristianLawForgetExerciseEssentialsInjusticeNeighborViolentDenialNonviolenceRedress Author:Philip Berrigan
“The only way you can get at the state is by dealing with its laws.” WayStatesLawDealing With It Author:Philip Berrigan
“If 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.” IfsKindStatesLawBreakDissentLatitudeBreaking The Law Author:Philip Berrigan
“[ To break the law] would still be an imperative. I guess we do it for both reasons. You try to be a Christian, you try to come from that tradition of the Jewish prophets and then Christ and everything since. That becomes your handbook. "Witness" is the key word. You witness against the injustice, against the atrocity, against the heavy-handedness, and all the rest. We try to make a statement to other people, and we try to say it's your responsibility, too.” PeopleTryingStillsReasonChristianLawChristResponsibilityBreakKeysTraditionInjusticeHeavyStatementsWitnessProphetImperativesAtrocities Author:Philip Berrigan
