“I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that
God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love,
that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is
redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love,
incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward
wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
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On February 10, 1968 Berry delivered
"A Statement Against the War in Vietnam" during the Kentucky
Conference on the War and the Draft at the University of Kentucky in
Lexington:[11]
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We seek to preserve peace by fighting a war, or to advance
freedom by subsidizing dictatorships, or to ‘win the hearts and minds of the
people' by poisoning their crops and burning their villages and confining
them in concentration camps; we seek to uphold the ‘truth' of our cause with
lies, or to answer conscientious dissent with threats and slurs and
intimidations. . . . I have come to the realization that I can no longer
imagine a war that I would believe to be either useful or necessary. I would
be against any war.[12]
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