"When the church hears the cry of the……" — Oscar Romero
"When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises."
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46 Quotes by Oscar Romero
Oscar Romero has 46 quotes on this site.
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We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something,…
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Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains of wheat…
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I am bound, as a pastor, by divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that…
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We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been…
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We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among…
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Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be…
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That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self,…
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I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the…
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Who knows if the one whose hands are bloodied with Father Grande's murder, or the one who shot Father Navarro,…
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The who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless.
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Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember,…
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We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.
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