Friday, 5 January 2024

Part 198. Insights: Love and justice

The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.
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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