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US Roman Catholic priests. The brothers, opponents of the Vietnam War, broke into the draft-records offices at Catonsville, Maryland, to burn the files with napalm. They were sentenced in 1968 to three and six years' imprisonment respectively, but went underground. Subsequently Philip Berrigan was tried with others in 1972 for allegedly conspiring to kidnap President Nixon's adviser Henry Kissinger and blow up government offices in Washington, DC; he was then sentenced to two years' imprisonment.



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Remembering the importance of churches in mobilizing blacks in the 1950s and 1960s, and of religious figures such as the Berrigan brothers and other clerics in opposing U.
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress by Niose, David A. / The Humanist
Some are "superstars" like Dorothy Day, the Berrigan brothers, Thomas Merton, Eileen Egan, Cesar Chavez, Father Roy Bourgeois, and Sister Helen Prejean.
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Wittner also gives direct action groups their due, citing the work of the Berrigan brothers and Women's Strike for Peace, among others.
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