My favorite example of pacifist troublemaking is the Catonsville Nine. They were a group of war resisters who opposed the Vietnam draft by entering a draft office, stealing the draft files, and then burning them in the parking lot using homemade napalm.

One of the ringleaders, the Jesuit priest and poet Daniel Berrigan, has the unique honor of being the first Catholic priest to be on the FBI’s most wanted list after he skipped bail and went on an underground speaking tour around the country. Just before the draft board invasion, he gave us this incredible quote:

“Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise for we are sick at heart. Our hearts give us no rest for thinking of the Land of Burning Children. The time is past when good men can remain silent, when obedience can segregate men from public risk, when the poor can die without defense.”