Elizabeth McAlister
/Overview
Elizabeth McAlister born Orange, NJ November 17, 1939. Leader of Vietnam War opposition; opposed all subsequent wars (Central America, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan); 25 years Good Friday vigil at Pentagon; Catholic nun; wife of Philip Berrigan; co-founder of Jonah House Baltimore, 1973; activist, Plowshares nonviolent movement against nuclear weapons. Arrested many times; imprisoned for 3 years, 1983.
Quotations
"I don't believe there is a better way to live than this life of nonviolent civil resistance." (Am. Univ., Jan. 22, 2000; Jim Haber photo nukeresister.org)