Quotes by 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.”

“When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara one of the great prophets of Christian "Liberation theology".”

“The capitalist empires, with their affirmations of sacrifice for the free world, of defence of private enterprise, of safeguarding order from subversion and chaos, are in fact defending their polit...”

“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.”

“Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.”

“If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with rotten matter fermenting in its depths - we may be sure that that pe...”

“When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.”

“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...”