Daniel Berrigan
Today is Daniel Berrigan's 80th birthday. I had a birthday party at my home; Anirvan and Zack came. We listened to the Dar Williams song and had a birthday cake with eight candles and the inscription "Happy b-day Father Dan".
We also listened to an MP3 of Martin Luther King's speech on why he opposed the Vietnam War. In the factual background section, there were a bunch of pieces of history about the Vietnam War I hadn't known about. And this is the source of a few famous King quotations:
I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
(Alas, I'm pretty sure King would see me as part of the problem.)
Anirvan let me borrow Phillip Berrigan's autobiography, Fighting the Lamb's War.
