Ana Carrigan > Quotes

“Facts. Understanding. Courage and solidarity. These were Romero's only weapons, and every Sunday he armed the people of Salvador with them.”
― Ana Carrigan, Salvador Witness: The Life and Calling of Jean Donovan

“literally tens of thousands of people, followed in the footsteps of Jean, Maura, Ita, and Dorothy, traveling to El Salvador as on a kind of pilgrimage, visiting communities in war zones, in Chalatenango or La Libertad, where the women worked, visiting the site of their execution and first burial, praying in the chapel built to mark the spot.”
― Ana Carrigan, Salvador Witness: The Life and Calling of Jean Donovan

“Children whose large, expressionless dark eyes had seen too much. Who shook uncontrollably at the sight of a man in a uniform, and woke alone and screaming in the night.”
― Ana Carrigan, Salvador Witness: The Life and Calling of Jean Donovan

“They were very beautiful times. He was the greatest man I ever met in my life. He took the Gospel story and wove it into everyday life he made it come alive; you'd listen to him and say to yourself, 'This is what Jesus was talking about' . . .”
― Ana Carrigan, Salvador Witness: The Life and Calling of Jean Donovan

“U.S. missionaries became some of the most impassioned witnesses offering counter testimony to U.S. policies in Central America. Living among the poorest of the region, they saw the truth of what drove people to rebellion: generations of misery institutionalized by the greed and selfishness of the wealthy (as Archbishop Oscar Romero himself pointed out), the repression of all hope by means of the bluntest of instruments—torture, disappearance, and murder.”
― Ana Carrigan, Salvador Witness: The Life and Calling of Jean Donovan