Remembering Father Daniel Berrigan

You just have to do what you know is right. Daniel Berrigan
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"You just have to do what you know is right." -Father Daniel Berrigan

You just have to do what you know is right. Daniel Berrigan
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Remembering Father Daniel Berrigan who passed away yesterday at the age of 94. The above art is Corita Kent's artwork entitled, "Love at the End" and "Phil and Dan."

Father Berrigan's actions and words had a strong impact on Corita and her art: "As Corita’s political activism grew, her art began to feature psychedelic colors and more strident messages. She later gave Daniel Berrigan, S.J., the peace activist, credit as a source of her powerful activist art of the mid- to late-1960s. “I suppose people like Dan had a lot to do with it because he was the first one I had ever heard speaking about the Vietnam War…. And I think living with people who were socially conscious helped a lot. I’m sure if I had been a nice proper housewife, I would not have bumped into all of these ideas,” she said in an interview in 1977 for an oral history project at the University of California. Her 1969 serigraph “phil and dan” features a news photo of the Berrigan brothers burning draft cards, in fluorescent orange. It is striking, engaging and challenging to the viewer, perhaps requiring a greater response than her earlier serigraphs."

Howard Zinn reading one of Daniel Berrigan's poems 

"Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits."-Father Daniel Berrigan

Remembering a War

Mission to Hanoi 

The Problem is Civil Obedience by Howard Zinn

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More Howard Zinn Links Here.

"You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can." -Father Daniel Berrigan