Gustavo Gutiérrez

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• If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums,… Byways
• The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature. Exodus
• So you say you love the poor? Name them. Inspirational
• The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order. Action
• We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . .… All
• Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the… Appropriate
• [Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively… Actively
• The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order. Christianity
• There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny. Closely
• But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not… Action
• If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to… Among

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