"Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble. The……" — Hélder Câmara
"Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble. The northern hemisphere, the developed area of the world, the 20% who possess 80% of the world's resources, are of Christian origin. What impression can our African and Asian brethren and the masses in Latin America have of Christianity, if the tree is to be judged by its fruits? For we Christians are largely responsible for the unjust world in which we live."
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Hélder Câmara
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11 Quotes by Hélder Câmara
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I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me…
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When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning…
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Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.
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In the developed countries of the capitalist world, the mass media are beginning to become businesses, and huge businesses at…
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Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages,…
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God looks unjust but is not. God asks more from those who more is given. They are not greater or…
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