“Every work of mercy suffers from the same pitiless reversal as soon as war is declared. Human beings are made to suffer the agonies of thirst, hunger, nakedness, homelessness, untreated disease, and captivity, when they are not killed outright. The same evils are inflicted on civilian noncombatants as on combatants.”

– Eileen Egan, co-founder of Pax Christi USA, in Peace Be With You (Orbis Books, 1999), 149.