Wow check out this great quote I just found:

[proud2BlibKansan]

Brazilian bishop Dom Hélder Câmara:

"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."

[SoCalDem]

1. republicans would also call him an enabler

:(

[tekisui]

2. That is a great quote. I am keeping that one near.

[chalky]

3. I need your blessing...

I've been shopping around for a new signature.
Mind if I snag this?

[Selatius]

4. I could be mistaken, but I believe Bishop Camara was a proponent of Liberation Theology.

Liberation Theology:

Liberation theology is a school of theology within Christianity, particularly in the Roman Catholic Church. It emphasizes the Christian mission to bring justice to the poor and oppressed, particularly through political activism. Its theologians consider sin the root source of poverty, the sin in question being exploitative capitalism and class war by the rich against the poor. It has a range of meanings: broadly, especially in the media, it may refer to any politically-activist Christian thought, but the technical sense is narrower.

Liberation Theologians use political theory, primarily Marxism, to help understand how to combat poverty. Some elements of certain liberation theologies have been rejected by leaders of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church over the last 30 years. At its inception, liberation theology was predominantly found in the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council. It is sometimes regarded as a form of Christian socialism, and it has enjoyed widespread influence in Latin America and among the Jesuits, although its influence diminished within Catholicism after liberation theologians using Marxist concepts were harshly admonished by Pope John Paul II (leading to the curtailing of its growth).

The current Pope, Benedict XVI, has long been known as an opponent of certain types of liberation theology, and issued several condemnations of tendencies within it while head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology

[donheld]

5. k & R

[struggle4progress]

6. Spiral of Violence (Helder Camara, 1971)

... Here, in our opinion, are the Gandhian possibilities in the Third World. For truth and liberating moral pressure to be a real alternative to armed revolution, it seems essential that the established regime should have a minimum of respect for the rights of man, notably for freedom of expression. It is furthermore necessary that no totalitarian methods should be established to falsify truth, and no physical or moral tortures ...

When Gandhi went on a hunger strike, the whole world was grieved and there was no empire, however powerful, capable of resisting the moral pressure which arose from the four corners of the earth. But let us suppose that the established regime had left Gandhi without a voice, had placed his closest and dearest collaborators in prison, that it had spread about them the worst slanders (for example that they informed against their comrades, that they were afraid and had admitted their participation in subversive movements, that they abandoned Satyagraha . . .) what would the apostle of non-violence have been able to do?

In the developed countries of the capitalist world, the mass media are beginning to become businesses, and huge businesses at that. The freedom of journalists is now becoming, in most cases, a very relative thing: it ends where the interests of the business begin. When independent and courageous newspapers exist they are destroyed, as happened in Italy with L'Avvenire dell'Italia ...

I know your sincerity and I respect your choice. Leave no - one indifferent around you. Provoke discussions. Your youth must force people to think and take up a position: let it be uncomfortable, like truth, demanding, like justice ...

http://www.alastairmcintosh.com/general/spiral-of-violence.htm

[Libertas1776]

7. The Bishop was

a very good man. Pity is successor was a real ass clown http://www.answers.com/topic/jos-cardoso-sobrinho

[Fumesucker]

8. The poor have no food..

Because no one has taught them how to fish..

Snark on the "teach a man to fish" meme..

[LWolf]

9. I love that quote.

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