In The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, Daniel Berrigan, both its author and protagonist, wrote:

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  . . . 

Berrigan went on to say that he and the other eight who participated in the 1968 burning of draft cards with napalm in Catonsville, Maryland were willing to risk their lives and liberty for the sake of a new order, an order that recognized “life and gentleness and community and unselfishness.”