Berrigan, Daniel.
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Daniel Berrigan is a Catholic priest associated with peace and social justice movements throughout his life. A believer in non-violent civil disobedience, he has been arrested and imprisoned numerous times. He is most noted for his leadership of opposition to the Viet Nam war, but his work did not begin or end there.
The brothers Daniel Berrigan (born 1921) and Philip Berrigan (born 1923) have both been prominent in resistance to racial segregation, to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war, and to the production of nuclear weapons. Philip Berrigan, a former Josephite priest, and Daniel, a Jesuit priest, poet, playwright, and teacher, are both lecturers and civil disobedience activists.
Daniel Berrigan, S.J. (1921-) Roman Catholic priest, peace activist, poet. Philip Berrigan (1923-2002), peace activist, author, former Roman Catholic priest; served in World War II; m. Elizabeth McAlister. Both brothers protested the Vietnam War and were active in various peace, antiwar, and civil rights movements, including the Plowshares movement. Both were for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for acts of vandalism including destruction of government property.
Daniel Berrigan, a Catholic priest,has devoted his life to peace and social justice efforts. Committed to non-violent civil disobedience, he has been arrested and imprisoned numerous times. He has won awards for his non-fiction and poetry. Best known for leadership of protests against the Viet Nam war, his work neither began nor ended there.
Daniel Berrigan, Jesuit priest and Vietnam War protester convicted in case of conspiracy and destruction of draft records in Catonsville, Maryland, 1968.
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Antinuclear movement
Catholic Church
Catholic Church
Catonsville Nine
Christianity and politics
Civil rights movement
Draft resisters
Draft resisters
Government
Harrisburg Seven Trial, Harrisburg Pa., 1972
Modernism (Christian theology)
Pacifists
Peace movements
Plowshares Eight (Group)
Poetry
Political activists
Political culture
Political plays
Political poetry, American
Politics in literature
Protest poetry, American
Radicalism
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Religion and politics
Social justice
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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Maryland--Catonsville
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