Gustavo Gutierrez
Loving our neighbours means dismantling the systems that oppress them.
Thomas Horrocks
Social Justice is love applied to systems, policies and culture.
Bernice King
Those who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless.
Oscar Romero
Liberation Theology was born when faith confronted the injustice to the poor.
Leonardo Boff
To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make them an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
William Sloane Coffin
Your 'yes' to God requires your 'no' to all injustice, to all evil, to all lies, to all oppression and violation of the weak and the poor.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they are falling in.
Desmond Tutu
Jesus wasn't talking about how to be good within the framework of a domination system. He was a critic of the domination system itself.
Marcus Borg
The eternal destiny of human beings will be measured by how much or how little solidarity we have displayed with the hungry, the thirsty, the naked and the oppressed. In the end we will be judged in terms of love.
Leonardo Boff
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