Amy Goodman
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Friends Remember Fr. Dan Berrigan: "He Said He Didn't Believe in Heroes, He Believed In Community"
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4:34Now PlayingWe speak with close friends of the legendary antiwar priest, activist and poet Father Daniel Berrigan, who has died at the age of 94. "I just always considered Dan to be in the league with Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King and Dorothy Day and our greatest people," recalls Father John Dear, a Catholic priest and longtime peace activist. "He was the first priest arrested in U.S. history against war, maybe the world. … [I]t was so groundbreaking." Dear was one of Daniel Berrigan’s closest friends and worked with him for 35 years. He is Berrigan’s literary executor and the editor of five books of his writings. We are also joined by Bill Quigley, who was one of Daniel Berrigan’s attorneys. He is a professor and director of the Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic and Center for Social Justice, as well as the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University. Quigley recalls asking Father Berrigan, "Who are your heroes?" His response was, "I don’t believe in heroes, I believe in community."
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