Helder Camara Quotes

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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.

Helder Camara

In the Father's house we shall meet Buddhists and Jews, Muslims and Protestants...

Helder Camara

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 peace is false. Violence attracts violence. Let us repeat fearlessly and ceaselessly: injustices bring revolt, either from the oppressed or from the young, determined to fight for a more just and more human world.

Helder Camara

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... In socialist areas, it is enough to recall that the means of social communication are the monopoly of the party.

Helder Camara

Helder Camara

Helder Camara

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Born: February 7, 1909

Died: August 27, 1999 (aged 90)

Bio: Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara was a Brazilian Roman Catholic Archbishop. He was the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, serving from 1964 to 1985, during the military regime of the country.

Known for:

Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
The desert is fertile (1974)
Sister Earth: Creation, Ecology & the Spirit (1990)
Spiral of violence (1971)
A thousand reasons for living (1981)

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