

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
― Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
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“It is a common condition of being poor... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.”
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”
― All Over But the Shoutin'
― All Over But the Shoutin'
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