Gustavo Gutiérrez - Social Quotes

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The liberation of our continent means more than overcoming economic, social, and political dependence. It means, in a deeper sense, to see the becoming of mankind as a process of the emancipation of man in history. It is to see man in search of a qualitatively different society in which he will be free from all servitude, in which he will be the artisan of his own destiny.

Gustavo Gutiérrez
Contemporary man has begun to lose his naiveté as... the deep causes of the situation in which he finds himself are becoming clearer. He realizes that to attack these deep causes is the indispensable prerequisite for radical change. And so he has gradually abandoned a simple reformist attitude regarding the existing social order, for, by its very shallowness this reformism perpetuates the existing system.

Gustavo Gutiérrez
Once causes are determined, then there is talk of "social injustice" and the privileged begin to resist.

Gustavo Gutiérrez
By keeping historical events in their proper perspective, theology helps safeguard society and the Church from regarding as permanent what is only temporary. Critical reflection thus always plays the inverse role of an ideology which rationalizes and justifies a given social and ecclesial order.

Gustavo Gutiérrez
The theologian... will be engaged where nations, social classes, people struggle to free themselves from domination and oppression by other nations, classes, and people.

Gustavo Gutiérrez