"Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?"

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Source : "The activist who saved my life, and other contrarians" by David Byrne, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2016.

Daniel Berrigan

#Peace Quotes #Children Quotes #War Quotes

“A lot of acting is private time.”
“Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you can receive no greater flattery than to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your plant and ask, "What is that?"”
“Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult or creative.”
“I understand that you can never have the whole picture; inevitably, thereâ€™s stuff you donâ€™t know, canâ€™t know. But when it comes to Cameron I always want more than I have, would like to be able to take hold of at least one or two more pieces, if only because Iâ€™m convinced there are parts of myself inside them.”
“Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.”

Source : Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1999). “The Fencing Master”, Harcourt
“I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.”
“The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.”
“Humanity is the sin of God”

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