#daniel barrigan

[catgirlanarchy]

Everyone who automatically assumes nonviolence = lame ass protests needs to google daniel barrigan rn. Catholic priest and pacifist who went to prison for breaking into war offices and buring draft cards with homemade napalm. THAT'S how you do nonviolent resistance. Its not the nonviolent nature of the resistance that fails, its how much people are willing to risk. People risk very little nonviolently walking down the street. People risk a lot to nonviolently sabatogue weapons, pipelines, etc.

[infamoussayings]

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

Daniel Berrigan

[science-criticaltheory]

In 2006 Interview, Fr. Dan Berrigan Recalls Confronting Defense Secretary McNamara over Vietnam War.

We revisit a 2006 Democracy Now! interview with legendary antiwar priest, activist and poet Father Daniel Berrigan, who has died at the age of 94. He joined us to mark his 85th birthday, and discussed his life as a lifelong resister to what he calls "American military imperialism." In 1965, he and his brother Phil Berrigan spoke to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. "I said to the secretary something about, 'Since you didn't stop the war this morning, I wonder if you’d do it this evening.’ 

So he looked kind of past my left ear and said, 'Well, I’ll just say this to Father Berrigan and everybody: Vietnam is like Mississippi. If they won’t obey the law, you send the troops in.' And he stopped," recalls Berrigan. "And the next morning, when I returned to New York City, I said to a secretary at a magazine we were publishing—I said, would you please take this down in shorthand because in two weeks I won’t believe that I heard what I heard. ... And he talks like a sheriff out of Selma, Alabama. Whose law? Won’t obey whose law? Well, that was the level at which the war was being fought."

Democracy Now!